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Articles by Wendy Lucas
Corseting Respectability
Abstract This article examines the corset as a racialized system of expertise, access, and bodily discipline during the Jim Crow era in the United States. Rather than treating corsetry as a fashion object, it argues that corsets functioned as an infrastructure through which racial segregation manifested its way in production, retail, and fitting practices.
Commentary: Our politics deserve more than mere theatrics
First and foremost, the temperature and method of our public conversation is something that is indeed within our power to address. Winston Churchill famously remarked that democracies elect the leaders they deserve. As if to prove the point, the present public conversation we tolerate rewards a certain type of gladiator and demagogue, not the statesmen and intellects of old. If this concerns us, then this is not an indictment of our politicians but ourselves. What we tolerate, we deserve.
License to Exclude: Black Barbers in Arkansas
Tanner Corley [1] ; Wendy Lucas [2] ; Marcus Witcher [3] [1] University of Alabama [2] University of Central Arkansas [3] Huntingdon College Localización: Essays in economic and business history: the journal of the economic and business historical society, ISSN 0896-226X, Vol. 41, Nº. 2, 2023, págs.
Advice | A Candidate-First Model of Faculty Hiring for Cruel Times
Finding a tenure-track job in the humanities is like throwing a dart at a map taped to a wall 50 yards away. There’s a good chance you’ll miss the target entirely, and even if you hit the map, your dart is likely to stick somewhere you’ve never heard of and never envisioned yourself living. Like, say, our history department at the University of Central Arkansas. Imagine if your dart landed on our campus, and the prospect of spending your academic career in Conway, Ark.
Unmonumenting Junípero Serra: An Indigenous perspective on permanent removal
Workmen remove the statue of Father Jun’pero Serra, from its spot facing Mission Plaza on June 22, 2020. The Spanish Roman Catholic priest was founder of Mission San Luis Obispo in 1772. Statues have recently been the target of vandals. Matt Fountain mfountain@thetribunenews.com The multiple strategies and accounts of removing Junípero Serra from his pedestal across the state of California have emerged from the long overdue need to correct the historical record.
Indigenous Peoples Day helps shine the light of truth on California’s dark past
On Oct. 3, 2017, the city of San Luis Obispo officially joined more than 40 other communities and several states across this country that have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. A huge AU’AU’ (“thank you” in our Northern Chumash language) to Mayor Heidi Harmon as the driving force to bring this change about, and to the entire City Council for their support. I salute their moral courage and their wisdom.
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