Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Howard Grove Hospital in Richmond, and the thirty-six African American patients at Eastern Asylum were moved to this facility. In 1870, it became "Central Lunatic Asylum" and was dedicated solely...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...his master's life . . . but today, today when he knows that, in eighteen hours, his wife will no longer be among the living, he flies to throw himself...
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...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...especially, of African Americans in the early twentieth century. In the late 1800s, a "colored" high school opened in LaFollette that served, at its peak, nearly one hundred African American...
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...
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...
"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...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Klan, rode on horseback intimidating African Americans, disrupting local Republican Party and Loyal League activities, preventing voting, and sometimes leaving the bodies of murdered African Americans along the sides of...
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...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...with some party members talking about the need for Republicans to pursue a fifty-state strategy. 2008 Presidential Election Results by State (Democratic states in blue, Republican states in red) Other...