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J. Max Bond, Jr. Web-articles J. Max Bond, Jr. By Leslie Monsky Bond had a “steel spine and rock-hard determination – qualities always masked by a handsome…
Book Cover Books James Baldwin in Context By D. Quentin Miller Published This collection complements the ever-growing body of scholarship on Baldwin by combining…
Journal Cover Journal Articles Jim Crow and the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis By Martin Ruef and Angelina Grigoryeva Published In this study, we argue that the mixed evidence for the SMH may result from a misspecification in…
Book Cover Books Jim Crow Nostalgia Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville By Michelle R. Boyd Published An incisive analysis of racial identity in urban politics
Book Cover Books Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Ser., 22) By Anke Ortlepp Published Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains,…
Journal Cover Journal Articles Jim Crow, Ethnic Enclaves, and Status Attainment: Occupational Mobility among U.S. Blacks, 1880–1940 By Martin Ruef and Angelina Grigoryeva Published This article provides one possible theoretical resolution by separating the positive effects that…
Book Cover Books Julian Abele: Architect and the Beaux Arts (Minorities in Architecture) By Dreck Spurlock Wilson Published Julian Abele, Architect and the Beaux Arts uncovers the life of one of the first beaux…
Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World book cover. Books Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World By Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard and Bob Evans (editors) "The book addresses many aspects of the links between environmental quality and human equality..."
Keeping a Tight Lid excerpt. Journal Articles Keeping a Tight Lid: The Architecture and Landscape Design of Coffee Plantations in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil By Tania Andrade Lima Review (Fernand Braudel Center) Volume 34, Issue 1/2 (2011).
Book Cover Books Kitchen Table Series By Carrie Weems (Photographer), Sarah Lewis (Contributor) and Adrienne Edwards (Contributor) Published This text presents the kitchen as a place of domesticity, blackness, and gender. 
image Digital Humanities Land Acquisition and Dispossession Mapping the Homestead Act, 1863-1912 By University of Richmond and Julius Wilm Visualizing over time and space the more than 2.3 million claims and 900,000 "patents" granting…
image Digital Humanities Land and Legacy By Praxis Program at University of Virginia Library (Janet S. Dunkelbarger, Connor Kenaston, Natasha Roth-Rowland, Lauren Van Nest, Chloe Downe Wells) Investigating the University of Virginia’s and UVA Foundation’s land development and expansion…
Former slaves harvesting for their own profit. Corbis via Getty Images Web-articles Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership? By Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone Published Underlying the recent unrest sweeping U.S. cities over police brutality is a fundamental…
Book Cover: Landscape and Race in the United States Books Landscape and Race in the United States By Richard Schein (Editor) Published Edited by Richard Schein, each essay is grounded in a particular location but all of the…
image Digital Humanities Lansing Urban Renewal Project By Michigan State University’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Student-led digital project that seeks to tell the stories of homeowners affected by Urban Renewal…
From a promotional pamphlet for Soul City, ca. mid-1970s. [Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture] Web-articles Learning from Soul City By Kofi Boone Published Half a century ago, a multiracial new town envisioned by a leading Black activist was one of the…
Journal Cover Journal Articles Legacies of Loss and Trauma, Healing and Redemption: Cape Town Live Art Festival By Ketu H. Katrak Published Performance, installation, and African-based ritual represent the body as a site of subversion,…
Little White Houses cover. Books Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America By Dianne Harris Published How the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an…
Living In, Living Out cover. Books Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940 By Elizabeth Clark-Lewis Published In Living In, Living Out Elizabeth Clark-Lewis narrates the personal experiences of…
Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era book cover. Books Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era By Alison Rose Jefferson In Living the California Dream, Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “…