Why remembering American slave revolts remains contested and necessary history If American slavery remains a difficult topic to discuss with public audiences, the history of violent slave revolts is even more fraught. Enslaved people resisted constantly, sometimes escalating into open rebellion. Enslavers worked to keep stories of insurrection ......
Why remembering American slave revolts remains contested and necessary history If American slavery remains a difficult topic to discuss with public audiences, the history of violent slave revolts is even more fraught. Enslaved people resisted constantly, sometimes escalating into open rebellion. Enslavers worked to keep stories of insurrection ......
Communication and Power in the Making of Global Health Emergencies
How urgency-driven public health communication perpetuates inequities Global public health systems necessarily approach emergent threats with great urgency. As Julie Gerdes argues in Infectious Urgency: Communication and Power in the Making of Global Health Emergencies, that urgency itself functions as a rhetorical logic. And this logic shapes ......
Communication and Power in the Making of Global Health Emergencies
How urgency-driven public health communication perpetuates inequities Global public health systems necessarily approach emergent threats with great urgency. As Julie Gerdes argues in Infectious Urgency: Communication and Power in the Making of Global Health Emergencies, that urgency itself functions as a rhetorical logic. And this logic shapes ......
A story of leadership, lineage, and the transformational power of education James Edward Bowers rose from a childhood in segregated Orangeburg, South Carolina, to become the first full-time African American faculty member at the University of South Carolina School of Law. In his historically grounded memoir, Always Looking Forward, Bowers adds ......
Shaping Identity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina
A compelling look at relationships between Indigenous people and elite South Carolinians during and after the American Revolution. Patriots and Indians examines interactions between South Carolina elites and Native Americans across the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. Eighteenth-century South Carolinians engaged Indians in ......
Gullah-Geechee Diasporas counters romantic portrayals of Gullah-Geechee culture as a static, geographically isolated remnant of the past. Across eight interdisciplinary essays, the book's contributors trace an arc, described in time and space, from pre-Middle Passage Africa through the Caribbean and coastal United States into the interior South ......
