Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...wild landscapes have remained virtually untouched." Ironically, the photograph the PBS program chose to use on its opening page shows a site that is far from a "natural" area devoid...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...southeast of the present-day town of Allendale. The will of Robert Martin stipulates that his house on Charlotte Street, its furniture, and "house servants" will remain in the custody of...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...often themselves examples of brittle misunderstanding(s) of the conditions of their own labor. The Academy's big house, the "Euroamerican order of the center," and the black culture center's small house,...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...the flares and safety lights of apocalyptic refineries. It meant joining my father and uncles at sea, working on platforms. The closets in my parents' house tell the history of...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...authority in religious matters, paid inordinate attention to female reproductive organs as the cause of insanity, and promoted a racialized vision of healthy womanhood that ignored the trauma of abuse....
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
Review Max Grivno's subtle and remarkably textured history of labor in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason Dixon Line, 1790–1860, details...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...are some central technologies Digital Yoknapatawpha uses? The user has begun the "Play Narrative" animation for Flags in the Dust, and has reached page 75. Events can also be viewed...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...ancestry between Oxford's present-day African American residents and the Creek Freedmen of Oklahoma, many local Oxford Black elders have felt a deep sense of moral kinship with the Freedmen. J.P....
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...Verey and Penelope Hobhouse. Looking into Ryan Gainey's Garden, Decatur, Georgia, March 26, 2010. Photograph by Flickr user JR P. Creative commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Chad Stogner, founder of...
A City Divided
...may not have occurred to whites to demand black residential segregation; after all, social codes and local and state ordinances controlled much of the interaction between whites and blacks already...