Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...have been leading an initiative to build a larger memorial at the Freedom Riders site. But official reluctance to honor the Freedom Riders has often blocked action. In denying Georgia...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...free women of color formed a benevolent organization, the Female Union Band Society (FUBS). A decade later and for $250, they engaged Joseph T. Mason—schoolteacher and free man of color—to...
Our Backward Revolution
...Port Royal Experiment: Rehearsal for Reconstruction. Rose tells the remarkable story of enslaved and subsequently free Black people living on the South Carolina Sea Islands who gained their freedom—and small...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...(1984); Jane Landers, ed., Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the America (London: Frank Cass, 1996); and Margo Pope, "Slavery and the Oldest City," The St. Augustine...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...of the Freedmen's Bureau, a government-funded agency run by the military to aid the transition of slaves to freedom. In 1868, an effort to shut down the village was launched....
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...a chorus of animals: "'I'm hungry. I want to poop.' But sometimes they start talking in codes." How do we make our way into the coded life of other species?...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...the various iterations of Lousiana's colonial slave codes, analyzing in rich, often imaginative detail, the aspirations and anxieties of authorities who attempted to construct and maintain categories of difference within...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...York: Oxford University Press, 2008); Charles Lane, The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, The Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2008); and...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...inequality. This ideology allows white residents to celebrate progressiveness while failing to promote meaningful inclusion. Creekridge Park Demographics. Map by George Mayorga. From Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...challenges of the twenty-first century. To secure clean air and water, climate and community resilience, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment for all. To promote justice and...