Infrastructure and the Making of Neoliberal Yucatan
In 2022, journalists announced the impending economic death of a small Mexican town. Piste, gateway to the famed Chichen Itza archeological site, would be circumvented by the Tren Maya commuter rail megaproject, depriving it of the promise of steady tourist traffic. Instead of ruminating with frustration, locals set to work on negotiations with ......
Infrastructure and the Making of Neoliberal Yucatan
In 2022, journalists announced the impending economic death of a small Mexican town. Piste, gateway to the famed Chichen Itza archeological site, would be circumvented by the Tren Maya commuter rail megaproject, depriving it of the promise of steady tourist traffic. Instead of ruminating with frustration, locals set to work on negotiations with ......
How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement
The memory of the long civil rights movement often celebrates white men and women who drew on their religious faith to support Black demands for racial justice. However, the visions and actions of these leaders and their organizations often conflicted with those of Black leadership. While Black activists fought for a broad vision of freedom, white ......
How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement
The memory of the long civil rights movement often celebrates white men and women who drew on their religious faith to support Black demands for racial justice. However, the visions and actions of these leaders and their organizations often conflicted with those of Black leadership. While Black activists fought for a broad vision of freedom, white ......
Aesthetic Violence in American Literature and Art, 1945-2001
In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwhelming suffering of the sociopolitical moment, new ways of thinking about violence-as structural, systemic, and senseless-emerged. Artists and writers, however, challenged the cultural impulse to make ......
Aesthetic Violence in American Literature and Art, 1945-2001
In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwhelming suffering of the sociopolitical moment, new ways of thinking about violence-as structural, systemic, and senseless-emerged. Artists and writers, however, challenged the cultural impulse to make ......
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War
Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR struggle for postwar domination, with Cuba as the central staging ground-a standard account that ......
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War
Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR struggle for postwar domination, with Cuba as the central staging ground-a standard account that ......
Policing and Reform in America's Jim Crow Countryside
In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the backroads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside as ideas of race, property, and belonging reshaped state power. In Mississippi Law, Justin Randolph explores policing's hinterland to explain US racial authoritarianism between the Civil War ......
