The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...New Mexico, Arizona, and California). In a 1917 letter protesting forced smallpox vaccination, or re-vaccination, Miguel Barrera, a Mexican businessman working in Texas, challenged border medical officials' decisions. "When a...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...Green New Deal in terms of a "Green Democratic Revolution" as a new front in the radicalization of democracy that redefines democratic principles and then extends them to new fields...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
...as the “forgotten pandemic,” COVID-19 took place in an era of global connection and social media, allowing for new audiences and shared artistic production. While scientists worked to understand the...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
Call for Submissions Southern Spaces invites scholars, critics, writers, health care providers, public health practitioners, activists, media producers, community organizers, and patients to submit 1,000-word blog posts, as well as...
A Southern Underground Railroad
...(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003) and the co-editor of Early Modern Ecostudies: From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare (New York: Palgrave Macmilian, 2008), William Bartram, the Search for Nature's...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...1902). Top, Edward Albert Batson, New Orleans Daily Picayune, 1902. Batson was found guilty of murder and executed. Bottom, Sheriff Perkins and deputy Fontenot, Batson's Louisiana escorts. New Orleans Daily Picayune, 1902. Images...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman A popular tourist attraction in New Orleans today is the "Moonwalk," a brick-paved promenade stretching along the Mississippi riverfront from the Covention...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...America and the world. Masahiro Sumori, Congo Square today, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2006. Sculptural tributes to New Orleans musical history greats are scattered throughout the park, most of them in...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003); Robert Weems, Jr., Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century (New York: New York University Press, 1998); Victoria Wolcott, Race,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...landed on the shores of the New World, newly freed Black people resisted the re-imposition of slavery. In the revolutionary period of Reconstruction, they developed new tools of resistance—the Union...