Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...New Orleans—variants of the X-code left by searchers as they systematically covered the city, critically pertinent markings applied to visited houses and buildings. “Paint fades, archives endure,” reads a promotional...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...stations years to open up to African American hiring and African American actors and anchors. But the television coverage of events in Virginia was decidedly different from the print media...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Eastside, takes its place in the background. While the mural is emblematic of a proud African American history in central East Austin, it also evokes a present in which African...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...X-image resurfaced, a predecessor to my response to the thousands that appeared in New Orleans. Investigation of the code revealed that this graphic is clearly prescribed by the Urban Search...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...with the world of gangsta rap and southern-coded truck driver culture. While group members acknowledge their appreciation for both the spirit and musical content/ of the new rap sound coming...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...Desire ". . . everyone on the app says they hate the app but no one stops . . ." —Danez Smith, "a note on the phone app that tells...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
Introduction Counties in the Appalachian Region. Map created by the Appalachian Regional Commission, October 8, 2008, arc.gov/images/appregion/AppalachianRegionCountiesMap.pdf. Of countless images over the last century, attempts to frame Appalachia's landscape and...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino children. (Applause.) These families should be free to choose the public, private, charter, magnet, religious, or...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...Is Native and Fine; Batteau, The Invention of Appalachia; McNeill, ed., Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture. Halcomb's admirers romanticized his apparent isolation not only from urban America and popular...
Writing Appalachia
...and fetishization of Appalachia, see Allen W. Batteau, The Invention of Appalachia (1990). Some of the best statements on the conflicting narratives comprising the "invention" of Appalachia appear, of course,...