Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Both Africans and Afro-descendants accessed them and fought for them through the courts, a relatively remarkable phenomenon—in light of the documented difficulty that many Africans had to access courts of...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...such as Chicago and Philadelphia to join the Atlanta ummah, known for its African American Muslim professionals, its progressive African American mosque communities, and its Muslim private schools. The educated...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...coffee plantations. Fueled by the coffee boom, highland migration soared and for the first time the central mountainous region displaced the coast as the most densely populated area of Puerto...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...later called Jack Smith, an African who died free in St. Augustine.27Griffin, Patricia, ed., The Odyssey of an African Slave (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009). While Sitiki was not...
Looking Back to Move Forward
...Noir' (The Black Code)." National Park Service, (2024, October 2). https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/transcription-of-the-code-noir-the-black-code.htm It was law, but it was also permission. It authorized a way of being that extended beyond itself, embedding...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...honor to be called 'Negroes'." From the use of "colored" and "Negro" to "African American," "Black," and "Bi-racial," the problem of naming and being named has reflected the struggles of...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...exclude non-Spanish speaking customers and/or staff no exception to this policy. Thanks.75Victor Manuel Ramos, "Workforce Central Florida had an English-only policy," Orlando Sentinel Hispanosphere, October 5, 2011. Workforce Central Florida...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...thousand African American, Latino, and white day laborers have been searching for work or working in Atlanta's manual trades and industries on a daily basis since the early 1980s. African...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...African character everywhere: African-born merchants dominated the city’s street economy by selling food and African-made textiles, while African languages were as commonly spoken as Portuguese. Bahia’s African populace also shaped...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...course. Indeed, many of these networks spread deep into the villages of central Mexico and throughout Central America, and have been critical in drawing workers and families north across the...