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Notes From the Editor

Notes From the Editor Gregory S. Crider The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies convened 10-12 March 2022 in Charlotte, North Carolina for our Sixty-Ninth Annual Meeting. The conference featured forty panels on a wide variety of topics. Program chair Steven Hyland (Wingate University) saw to the essential tasks of putting panels together in the areas of Literature & Cultural Studies as well as History & Social Sciences. Monica Rankin (University of Texas at Dallas), Jürgen Buchenau (University of North Carolina Charlotte), Steven Hyland (Wingate University) and Gregory Crider (Winthrop University) organized local arrangements for the convention. Freed from many COVID-19 restrictions, attendees were thrilled to meet face-to-face this year after the successful but less personal online meeting in 2021. Centered in the historic Dunhill Hotel in uptown Charlotte, members enjoyed our regular social and networking events, professional development opportunities, and diverse local cultural life. As co-sponsors of the conference, the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University and the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs offered meaningful support and participation. Lou Pérez (UNC), Beatriz Riefkohl-Muñiz (UNC), and Natalie Hartman (Duke) provided critical assistance to the annual meeting. Our collaborators at UNC Press, John McLeod, Kate Stack, and Dylan Stroupe, offered much appreciated backing as well. Now with five years of alliance with the University of North Carolina Press, our readership and exposure continue to grow with inclusion in Project MUSE, an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and books. The Latin Americanist also continues to partner with the SECOLAS podcast, Historias, which frequently interviews TLA authors and other Latin Americanists from diverse disciplines. The collaboration of these two projects produces opportunities for authors to share their work, advancement of meaningful scholarly engagement, and written and audio resources for classrooms and the public. As always, TLA editors welcome new ideas and suggestions. This volume features some of the best papers from the conference in article format. Eleven of the 150 presenters at the conference submitted revised manuscripts of their papers for publication. Following editorial and peer review and another round of revisions, the five articles published in this issue represent a range of disciplines in both the humanities and social sciences. Graduate assistant Rebekah Ward has played a key role in communicating with authors and organizing and preparing manuscripts for publication. [End Page 6] UNC Charlotte, Winthrop University, and Wingate University, the three SECOLAS host institutions, offer significant financial and institutional support for the publication and success of this journal. In particular, we offer our gratitude to Dr. Nancy Gutierrez, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte; to Dr. Takita Sumter, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Ellison Capers Palmer, Jr. Professorship of History at Winthrop; and to Dr. Jeff Frederick, Provost at Wingate University, for their continuing encouragement of both The Latin Americanist and SECOLAS. [End Page 7] Copyright © 2023 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies

Interview with Dr. Miguel La Serna

CENFAD community interview with Dr. Miguel La Serna, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, concerning his book With Masses and Arms: Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (UNC Press, 2020)

Note from the Editor

Note from the Editor Gregory S. Crider The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies convened virtually 15–18 April 2021 for our Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting. The conference featured forty-seven panels on a wide variety of topics. Program chairs Eunice Rojas (Furman University) and Colin Snider (University of Texas, Tyler) handled the essential tasks of putting panels together in the areas of Literature & Cultural Studies and History & Social Sciences, respectively. Monica Rankin (University of Texas at Dallas), Jürgen Buchenau (University of North Carolina Charlotte), Steven Hyland (Wingate University) and Gregory Crider (Winthrop University) organized arrangements for the online convention. As the COVID-10 pandemic prevented us from holding our usual inperson conference, the local arrangements team took advantage of online opportunity to meet and hold our academic sessions. While we missed our traditional banquet and networking events, we benefited from many outstanding panels and diverse global participation. Susanny Acosta, Rossmery Palacio, Julia Poppell, and Paul Telljohann (all of UNC Charlotte) served as SECOLAS Zoom moderators who expertly facilitated individual sessions and calmed presenters’ nerves along the way. Critical assistance in making the conference a success came from the Maestro Meetings team of Mili Cabrera, John Meyers, and Lazaros Amanatidis as well as from our collaborators at UNC Press, John McLeod and Dylan Stroupe. Now beginning our fourth year of collaboration with the University of North Carolina Press, our readership and exposure have grown significantly with inclusion in Project MUSE, an online database of peer- reviewed academic journals and books. We also continue to highlight our ongoing collaboration with the SECOLAS podcast, Historias, which frequently includes interviews with TLA authors and other Latin Americanists from diverse disciplines. As always, the journal editors welcome new ideas and suggestions. This volume features some of the best papers from the conference in article format. Fourteen of the 192 presenters at the conference submitted revised manuscripts of their papers for publication. Following editorial and peer review and another round of revisions, the eight articles published in this issue represent a range of disciplines in both the humanities and social sciences. In presenting these articles, we appreciate the help by our graduate assistant, Susanny Acosta. UNC Charlotte, Winthrop University, and Wingate University, the three SECOLAS host institutions, offer significant financial and institutional [End Page 7] support for the publication and success of this journal. In particular, we offer our gratitude to Dr. Nancy Gutierrez, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte; to Dr. Takita Sumter, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Ellison Capers Palmer, Jr. Professorship of History at Winthrop; and to Dr. Jeff Frederick, Provost at Wingate University, for their continuing encouragement of both The Latin Americanist and SECOLAS. [End Page 8] Copyright © 2022 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies

Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures

Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures

Preface to "Wheatley Pedagogies: A Forum on Teaching"

Preface to "Wheatley PedagogiesA Forum on Teaching" Tara A. Bynum (bio), Brigitte Fielder (bio), and Cassander L. Smith (bio) The essays that constitute this pedagogy forum address strategies for teaching Wheatley by attending to both the context of her historical moment and our own. Importantly, the essays highlight strategies for teaching Wheatley in a variety of settings—classrooms, scholarly conferences, and public events. They also provide interdisciplinary approaches to studying her life and work. This forum makes clear that teaching Wheatley offers students transformative opportunities for profound learning and even unlearning. [End Page 797] Tara A. Bynum University of Iowa Brigitte Fielder University of Wisconsin–Madison Cassander L. Smith University of Alabama Tara A. Bynum tara a. bynum is an assistant professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. Her book Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America is forthcoming in fall 2022 from the New Black Studies Series at the University of Illinois Press. Brigitte Fielder brigitte fielder is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke UP, 2020) and coeditor of Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print (U of Wisconsin P, 2019). She is currently writing a book about racialized human-animal relationships in the long nineteenth century, which shows how childhood becomes a key site for humanization and racialization. Cassander L. Smith cassander l. smith is an associate professor of English and associate dean for academic affairs in the Honors College at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic (LSU Press, 2016) and coeditor of The Earliest African American Literatures (UNC Press, 2021). Currently, she is working on a monograph, Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic, under contract with LSU Press. The book examines respectability as a coping strategy for early Black Americans like Phillis Wheatley. Copyright © 2022 The University of North Carolina Press

Contributors’ Notes

Contributors’ Notes

Teaching the History of Drugs as Commodities

Paul Gootenberg is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology at Stony Brook University (New York) and Chair of History. He is a global commodity and drug historian trained as a Latin Americanist at the University of Chicago and Oxford. His works include Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug (UNC Press, 2008), Cocaine: Global Histories (Routledge, 1999) and with Liliana M. Dávalos, The Origins of Cocaine: Peasant Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes (Routledge, 2018). From 2011-14 he chaired the Drugs, Security and Democracy fellowship (DSD) of the Soros Open Society Foundation and Social Science Research Council. Gootenberg is General Editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Drug History and President-elect 2021of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS). He regularly teaches courses at Stony Brook about the history of commodities and drugs. What follows is an edited transcript of an interview he had with Elisabet Rasch one of the editors of the Teaching Commodity Frontiers section, in February 2021.

There and Back Again: A Commentary on Social Welfare Policy in the Wake of 2020

There and Back Again: A Commentary on Social Welfare Policy in the Wake of 2020

Note from the Editor-in-Chief

Note from the Editor-in-Chief Jürgen Buchenau I take great pleasure in greeting the readership of The Latin Americanist as our new editor-in-chief. First and foremost, these are big shoes to fill. My predecessor, Greg Weeks, served as editor for fifteen long years. During that time, he built the nation's oldest interdisciplinary Latin American Studies journal from its self-published status through an association with Wiley to its present status as a journal published by UNC Press. And Greg did so while he assumed ever greater responsibilities at UNC Charlotte: first, as Director of Latin American Studies, then, as chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, and finally, as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. As co-editor of the SECOLAS Annals issue along with Gregory Crider, I have watched the growth of the journal with great pride, and I look forward to the opportunity to keep The Latin Americanist on its upward trajectory. Even on the heels of such success, a new editor inevitably brings some changes. To begin with, Gregory Crider is now the sole editor of the Annals edition. Second, five associate editors—all colleagues at UNC Charlotte—will help make publication decisions and recruit manuscripts: Frederico Batista (Political Science), David Dalton (Spanish), Erika Edwards (History), Eric Hoenes (Anthropology), and Carmen Soliz (History). I appreciate their help very much and look forward to working with them in the coming years. Third, we will be growing the book review section under the leadership of Colin Snider (University of Texas-Tyler). In addition to the traditional book reviews, Colin is looking for review essays that examine two or more works from a comparative perspective. We know that these review essays are helpful for both teaching and scholarship. Please contact Colin or me if you have an idea for such a review essay. I would also like to take this opportunity to solicit suggestions more generally on how to further advance the journal and make it more helpful to our readers. Suggestions for special issues or sections are also always welcome. We look forward to hearing from you! I appreciate the support from our staff at UNC Charlotte and at SECOLAS early on in the transition. The Dean of our college, Nancy Gutierrez, has been very supportive of our journal throughout our time here. I especially want to acknowledge our former graduate assistant, Julia Poppell, as well as our new one, Susanny Acosta, who have been patient with a new and inexperienced editor. As has the SECOLAS leadership, especially our Secretary-Treasurer, Steven Hyland, who writes the checks and makes sure we stay afloat. I look forward to working with our current president, [End Page 319] Monica Rankin, as well as our next one, Martin Nesvig. I appreciate you all and look forward to seeing many of you at the next SECOLAS conference here in Charlotte! [End Page 320] Jürgen Buchenau UNC Charlotte Copyright © 2021 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies

Rehearsing for Reconstruction: The Archipelagic Afterlives of the Port Royal Experiment

Abstract This essay traces the cultural legacy of the Port Royal Experiment, the Civil War–era social experiment in free labor conducted by Union forces on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. Whereas literary and cultural historians typically focus on the “discovery” of slave spirituals by Northern missionaries and educators at Port Royal, this essay tracks how later writers, performers, and sociologists returned to the Sea Islands to reimagine the promise of free labor. The archive thus assembled includes Civil War–era ethnographies, memoirs, and reports; the scholarly monographs in UNC Press’s Social Study Series; and DuBose Heyward’s popular “Negro novel” Porgy (1925). Across this interdisciplinary tradition, writers of various stripes seek by turns to celebrate and contain the threat of the free but noncapitalist black body. The latter figure, recalling the disability category’s historical role in sorting people into work-based or need-based systems of social distribution, is commonly represented as disabled. Ultimately, the essay documents a dual development in US political economy as the marginalization of contraband slaves as capitalist laborers on the Sea Islands—the “failure” of the Port Royal Experiment—gives way to the consolidation of “black culture,” a success of a different kind.

Picturing History

Picturing History Martha A. Sandweiss (bio) Matthew Frye Jacobson, The Historian’s Eye: Photography, History, and the American Present. UNC Press in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, 2019. 192 pp. $37.50. Matthew Frye Jacobson’s collection of photographs, paired with extended captions, echoes an older tradition of photographic books about American life. But unlike Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, or Robert Frank, whose visual aesthetics shape his way of seeing, Jacobson is both photographer and writer here. He creates his own photographic archive, and then he interprets it. In so doing, he raises larger questions about photographs as a kind of primary source evidence and about how historians might engage photographs as historical documents. Jacobson began his project during that “first season of Obama,” (p. 1) between the spring of 2008 and the presidential inauguration in January 2009. He listened as people around him made sense of Obama’s election as a historical moment, with reference to the long American struggle for racial and social justice and the political battles over Civil Rights. In a nation not known for its historical sensibilities, this seemed notable, so he set out to create a photographic documentary of the inauguration. But then he kept going, through the Great Recession and the events he later came to see as emblematic of the rise of Trumpism—the challenges to Obama’s legitimacy, the dueling voices of the Tea Party and Occupy movements, the battles over gay marriage, Islamophobia, and immigration. Between 2009 and 2014, he traveled the country and made some 4,000 images from which he created an online archive and an exhibition. Later he sat down to go through the archive he had created, selected about 120 images for this book, and in 2016 wrote his text. Jacobson wants to think about “history as an instrument for analyzing the contours and meaning of present conditions” (p. 1). But as he straddles the conventional dividing lines between the work of a historian and that of a photojournalist or other kind of photographer, he disrupts the usual rules of the historian’s craft. He is not, here, just looking at the present and asking how historical developments led us to this point. He is also looking around him and, with his camera, trying to see what will be useful evidence in the [End Page 311] future. He looks backwards and forwards at the same time. Or, as he puts it, he “was learning to read the visual artifact of the past as it reveals itself in the present” and also “learning new habits of mind by which the historical imagination is never at rest, by which every landscape is made to render comment on ‘this historical moment’” (p. 155). In his text—long picture captions sandwiched between a brief introduction and afterword—he uses a first-person voice to ponder what it means to see and understand the world through photographic evidence. Each pairing of image and text, he writes, is a “freestanding piece in its own right, a meditation” (p. 5). He frames his larger questions and then organizes his work in six thematically arranged sections focusing on Obama as an icon, the broad economic consequences of the Great Recession, the impact of that recession on the real estate market, an “American Studies road trip,” the ugly racialized backlash against Obama, and a brief section of “reflections” that sounds a more aspirational—if not quite hopeful—tone. Jacobson’s photographs are all in black and white. He concedes they may convey less “data” than color images (p. 10). But he argues that they better arrest a viewer’s attention and more fully engage their historical imagination, in part because we have become accustomed to seeing historical photographs in black and white. This is an interesting claim that acknowledges the photographer’s aesthetic debt to the ways of seeing pioneered by photographers like Lange, Evans, and Frank. He shares their interest in vernacular architecture, signs and posters. Like them, he takes note of the ironies created by the juxtapositions of signage that says one thing and surroundings that suggest another. And he borrows many of their motifs and strategies. An...

Review: Freedom’s Racial Frontier: African Americans in the Twentieth Century West, by Herbert G. Ruffin II and Dwayne A. Mack

Book Review| August 01 2019 Review: Freedom’s Racial Frontier: African Americans in the Twentieth Century West, by Herbert G. Ruffin II and Dwayne A. Mack Freedom’s Racial Frontier: African Americans in the Twentieth Century West. Edited by Herbert G. Ruffin II and Dwayne A. Mack (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018, 424 pp. $34.95 paper). Marne L. Campbell Marne L. Campbell Marne Campbell is an Associate Professor at Loyola Marymount University in the Department of African American Studies. Her research and teaching interests focus on the middle 19th and early 20th century urban United States. Her book, Making Black Los Angeles: Gender, Class, and Community, 1850–1917 was published by UNC press in 2016. Currently, she is writing a book about race, gender, and crime in early Los Angeles and co-authoring a book on civil unrest in America with Brenda E. Stevenson. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Southern California Quarterly (2019) 101 (3): 342–344. https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2019.101.3.342 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Marne L. Campbell; Review: Freedom’s Racial Frontier: African Americans in the Twentieth Century West, by Herbert G. Ruffin II and Dwayne A. Mack. Southern California Quarterly 1 August 2019; 101 (3): 342–344. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2019.101.3.342 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentSouthern California Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2019 by The Historical Society of Southern California2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Notes From the Editors

Notes From the Editors Gregory S. Crider and Jürgen Buchenau Returning to Nashville, TN for the first time since 2005, the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies convened our Sixty-Fifth Annual Meeting on the lovely campus of Vanderbilt University 8–10 March 2018. Hosted by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the conference presented an abundance of opportunities to explore diverse themes. Program chairs Amy Borja (University of Dallas) and Lily Balloffet (Western Carolina University) put together panels in the areas of Literature & Humanities and History & Social Sciences, respectively; Jürgen Buchenau (University of North Carolina Charlotte) and Gregory S. Crider (Winthrop University) organized local arrangements. Following the SECOLAS Awards Banquet in the Student Life Center Ballroom, Dr. Jonathan Brown (University of Texas Austin) reflected on topics central to his wide-ranging and distinguished scholarship in Latin American history, including the main points of his most recent book, Cuba’s Revolutionary World. As this volume is the first published with our new partner, the University of North Carolina Press, The Latin Americanist enters a new period in its history. The transition should have limited impact on how readers access the journal and how authors submit manuscripts, but we anticipate that the new partnership will create new opportunities to enhance the TLA profile and expand readership. The journal will now be included in Project MUSE, an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and books. The editorial leadership team is also considering new formats for special issues as well as discipline-specific and interdisciplinary literature reviews. We also look forward to ongoing collaboration with the SECOLAS podcast, Historias, which frequently includes interviews with TLA authors and other Latin Americanists from diverse disciplines. As always, the editors welcome new ideas and suggestions. This volume features some of the best papers from the conference in article format. Twelve of the 148 presenters at the conference submitted revised papers of their papers for publication. Following editorial and peer review and another round of revisions, the seven articles published in this issue represent a range of disciplines in both the humanities and social sciences. We are happy to present these articles, and we are grateful for the help provided in this endeavor by our graduate assistant, Leah Walton, who did particularly great work in helping us through the transition to our new publishing platform, Submittable. We are also grateful for the support from John McLeod, Director of the Office of Scholarly Publishing Services and Sam Dalzell, Journals and OSPS Coordinator, both with UNC [End Page 5] Press. Finally, we very much appreciate the help of Dr. Louis A. Perez, Jr., J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at UNC-Chapel Hill and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, in facilitating the new partnership with UNC Press. UNC Charlotte, Winthrop University, and Wingate University, the three SECOLAS host institutions, offer significant financial and institutional support for the publication and success of this journal. In particular, we offer our gratitude to Dr. Nancy Gutierrez, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte; to Dr. Adrienne McCormick, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Ellison Capers Palmer, Jr. Professorship of History at Winthrop; and to Dr. Helen Tate, Provost at Wingate University, for their continuing encouragement of both The Latin Americanist and SECOLAS. [End Page 6] Copyright © 2019 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies

A Black Girl Song for Dajerria

Research Article| October 01 2017 A Black Girl Song for Dajerria Tanisha C. Ford Tanisha C. Ford Tanisha C. Ford is associate professor of Africana Studies and History at the University of Delaware. She is the author of the award-winning Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (UNC Press, 2015). Ford is the co-founder of TEXTURES, a pop-up material culture lab that explores the complex intersection(s) of fashion, the body, and the built environment. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2017) 4 (3): 156–160. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.4.3.0156 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tanisha C. Ford; A Black Girl Song for Dajerria. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 1 October 2017; 4 (3): 156–160. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.4.3.0156 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressQED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2017 Michigan State University2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Embodied inequality.

A diverse group of scholars tackles the relationships between health care and social justice

Introduction

Introduction Hilda Kurtz and Deepak Mishra Dear Readers, We are delighted to introduce the latest issue of Southeastern Geographer, which also marks the beginning of our tenure as editors. This issue contains a very thoughtful special forum on the Charleston massacre of June 2015. Five short essays by seven geographers reflect on the implications of the murder of nine African Americans attending bible study in church by a self-proclaimed white supremacist. Different lenses on the tragedy dovetail in compelling ways. We hope that the forum encourages reflection and perhaps debate about how to understand and respond to ongoing racial violence. The special forum is followed by five articles showcasing the diverse nature of our discipline from human to physical geography. Tyner’s article analyzes the speeches of Malcolm X to draw out new understandings of the Black freedom fighter’s legacy. Specifically, Tyner urges readers to rethink Malcolm as at once “a critical theorist of geography and a radical political philosopher.” He focuses on Malcolm’s attention to geographies of the South in the latter’s geopolitical philosophy. Malcolm’s geographical critiques de-emphasized Southern exceptionalism, Tyner shows, and argued that “racial oppression and exploitation were constitutive of U.S. society as a whole.” Markley and Sharma examine the politics surrounding a residential building demolition in suburban Roswell, Georgia as a case of revanchist (sub)urbanism in which working class, nonwhite residents are displaced in the name of revitalizing suburban space. This intriguing case study considers such changes in the suburban landscape in tension with ideas of (sub)urban entrepreneurialism and New Urbanism. Hardy, Hepinstall-Cymerman, and Fowler partnered with two local land trusts to develop a priority map for conservation easement recruitment in the Upper Oconee watershed in northeastern Georgia. In the U.S., more than half of threatened and endangered species and their habitats are estimated to be located on private land, yet few land trusts have the staff and technical skills necessary to conduct conservation assessments of their jurisdictions. Their study provides a framework for partnerships between academic researchers and land trusts working on increasing the effectiveness of private land conservation. Kennedy investigated the possible impact of breached historic mill ponds in the southern Blue Ridge region in terms of their potential to act as sediment sources, elevating regional sediment yield values. Her study demonstrated that small mill ponds were potentially scattered throughout the southern Blue Ridge, impounding low-order streams (2nd and 3rd), and that the abandonment and breaching of these dams resulted in the remobilization of sand-, silt-, and clay-sized particulates. [End Page 3] Brown, Ellis, and Bleakney assessed tornado frequency characteristics and vulnerability within 100 km of three major cities in Tennessee—Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville. In the past ten years, Tennessee has recorded the highest number of tornado-related fatalities of all states. They found that three cities experienced an annual peak in tornadoes during the spring months; however, tornadoes in Memphis were spread out across more tornado days than in Nashville and Knoxville. Memphis also recorded the greatest number of fatalities among the three cities. Their study help provide insight on how tornado characteristics and associated vulnerability are changing on a regional scale. In short, the articles in this issue demonstrate the rich breadth of inquiry that makes contemporary academic geography so invigorating. We welcome your feedback. Best regards, Hilda Kurtz and Deepak Mishra MEET THE TEAM Greetings Members of SEDAAG, As in the incoming editors of Southeastern Geographer, we would like to introduce ourselves and our vision for the journal, and invite you to contribute in many ways and sundry to SEDAAG’s flagship regional journal. It is a privilege and an honor to continue in the footsteps of past editors Jim Wheeler, Derek Alderman, Scott Lecce, Graham Tobin, Robert Brinkmann, David Cochran, and Andy Reese. Their hard work and savvy innovations, including the move to quarterly publication, the linkage with UNC Press, the inclusion in Project Muse, and the publication of timely and well-received special issues, have positioned the journal as the most cited regional geography journal out there. We wish to thank the SEDAAG leadership for entrusting us to manage Southeastern Geographer for the...

The Uses of Memoir in Writing History: Or, What I Learned About Autobiography from John Hope Franklin and August Meier

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1989, I was a graduate student just beginning research on life of historian Rayford Logan. Perhaps best remembered for popularizing phrase the Nadir to describe trajectory of African Americans in period between end of Reconstruction and World War I, Logan (1897-1982) was a distinguished historian, Pan-Africanist, and civil rights innovator. A close associate of both Carter G. Woodson and W. E. B. DuBois, an early patron of Langston Hughes, and lifelong friends with, among others, great poet Sterling Brown and civil rights legal pioneer Charles Houston, Logan is better known to wider pub lie for editing 1944 collection of essays What Negro Wants and authoring his 1954 classic The Negro in American Life and Thought. But he was also a prominent diplomatic historian who wrote prolifically on Haiti, Caribbean, and Latin America, and on colonial Africa and anti-colonial struggle. And as a politically engaged professor in 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s at Virginia Union, Atlanta, and Howard Universities, he organized first citizenship schools designed to help disfranchised African Americans navigate considerable barriers to registering to vote. In 1920s he was a leading organizer of Pan-African Congress movement, and during wwn he was prominent in efforts to break down inequality in military and defense industries and was centrally involved in negotiations with President Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802. Yet as a light-complexioned African American, he was also influenced by intra-racial color prejudice that manifested itself in both pernicious and idiosyncratic ways. For example, when racial nomenclature began to change in 1960s, he was known to terminate conversations--and even longterm friendships--when people used word to describe Negroes. His visceral reaction to was often first thing people who knew him commented upon when I interviewed them. (1) In 1989, I had made my way to Durham, North Carolina, to interview John Hope Franklin, one of Logan's close associates. Franklin was extremely generous with his time and related choice stories and keen analysis of Logan's life and career. In this, my experience was not unique, as Franklin was unstinting with his time to all beginner scholars who requested it. At some point during lunch, Franklin asked me what else I would be doing while I was in area. I had had it in back of my head that I might visit Southern Historical Collection at University of North Carolina Libraries and look at correspondence concerning publication of Logan's controversial 1944 book What Negro Wants. (The book had created quite a storm in white South because contributors, all of whom were black and who together represented widest range of opinion, declared that what Negro wanted was end of segregation. The publisher was unc Press, and then-director W. T. Couch was scandalized; he tried to renege on publication contract, and relented only when Logan threatened him with a lawsuit.) I told Dr. Franklin with cocky assurance, I did not think that it would be necessary to visit archives, because I had already read about publication controversy in a couple of other books and I was sure that I had full story. Franklin shot me a look that exposed my foolishness: But, he intoned, those are not primary sources! Embarrassed, I mumbled something or other, and as soon as I could I dug into primary sources. Sure enough, I had not had full story. Logan had indeed eventually stood up to publishers, but until he reached that point, he was quite solicitous of Couch's point of view and tried to impose on his contributors to soften their opinions. Logan was willing to bend his integrity because publication by a prestigious press had professional value and, in an era of rigid segregation, would, he convinced himself, have salubrious effects for race. …

Contesting the Borderlands: Interviews on the Early Southwest by Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence

Reviewed by: Contesting the Borderlands: Interviews on the Early Southwest by Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence Jennifer Koshatka Seman Contesting the Borderlands: Interviews on the Early Southwest. By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Pp. 280. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.) Contesting the Borderlands: Interviews on the Early Southwest is a collection of interviews with nine prominent scholars of the southwestern borderlands that provides insight into some of the most important and provocative scholarship on this region. Organized chronologically, the volume starts with the prehistoric period, continues through Spanish colonization, covers the Mexican era, and ends with the U.S. takeover in 1848. The interviews illuminate the contested historical issues defining the Southwest, such as violence between Native peoples and the negotiation of power between Europeans and Indians. Sparked by probing questions from the authors, the interviews reveal not only how these scholars came to their interpretations of the past—their questions, methodologies, and use of evidence—but also how their analyses fit into the larger historical debates in the study of the Southwest. The first interview is with archaeologist Steven LeBlanc. His work proposes that the early Southwest was far more violent than previously believed, a conclusion he reached based on his research of ancestral Puebloan sites. The authors ask LeBlanc for his thoughts on the differing [End Page 387] scholarly assessments of this period in the Southwest, many suggesting this period was peaceful. LeBlanc explains how his methodology—the examination of multiple, independent strands of evidence that all point to the same conclusion—convinces him of the soundness of his conclusions. Among the book’s most interesting features are the interviewees’ responses to contradicting scholarship and, in some cases, defenses of their own. The interview with Juliana Barr will likely be the most compelling to Texas historians and enthusiasts. Her scholarship focuses on the colonial history of Texas, in particular the history of Native peoples and women. Barr explains how she came to the interpretation of Native peoples as powerful and dominant in the colonial encounter. Barr also focuses on the role of women and gender in Native cultures, something that readers of her excellent Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands (UNC Press, 2007) will be familiar with in tone and substance. Barr’s interview is a significant addition to Contesting the Borderlands as she is the only scholar interviewed who utilizes in-depth gender analysis in her work. Another highlight is the interview with eminent historian David J. Weber (1940–2010), whose work on the Spanish and Mexican borderlands emphasizes both conflict and accommodation among the various groups of people in the Southwest. In this interview, Weber manages to include all regions of the Southwest—including Texas, New Mexico, California, and northern Mexico—in his answers to questions about Spanish missions, Indian slavery, and the myth of the frontier. Contesting the Borderlands offers both a clear introductory overview of the increasingly broad and diverse scholarship on the Southwest and an in-depth discussion of specific issues and interpretations. The authors provide short introductions outlining pertinent historical context before each interview so that the specialist will be reminded of the essential details of the subject to be discussed while the novice will also have just enough background to engage meaningfully with the interview. This volume is enriched with maps, illustrations, and extensive notes. Jennifer Koshatka Seman Brookhaven College Copyright © 2015 The Texas State Historical Association

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Peruvian Cocaine and the Boomerang of History

"Peruvian Cocaine and the Boomerang of History." NACLA Report on the Americas, 47(2), pp. 48–49 Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul GootenbergPaul Gootenberg teaches History & Sociology at Stony Brook University and is author of Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug (UNC Press, 2009).