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...
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...
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
...work…from Appalachia, that one has to wonder why so few photographs like this exist."36Roger May, "Looking at Appalachia: William Gedney—Part Two," Walk Your Camera, August 4, 2012. http://walkyourcamera.com/looking-at-appalachia-william-gedney-part-two/. That Appalachia...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...England called The Dirty South advertises "moonshine-laced southern rock" and features imagery and language that engage facile southern stereotypes (rebel flags, cowboy hats, "geetar," "hollerin'") in a manner somewhat comparable...
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
...of Appalachian literature that is comprehensive, reflects contemporary ideas about authorship and Appalachia, and brings readers well into the twenty-first century. That is what this book attempts to do. In...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...that Appalachian studies isn't interdisciplinary enough? For instance, urban planners, demographers, and ethnographers (among others) are needed to understand urban Appalachia, immigration, housing, and employment. To be fully interdisciplinary, Appalachian...
Remnants of Flannery
...Brooke Hatfield experimented with several iterations of FLANnery O'Connor. Photographs by Brooke Hatfield. Courtesy of Brooke Hatfield. Pictured above are versions 1 and 2. Recently, Brooke Hatfield, an avid O'Connor fan, designer, and...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...to desegregated schools. The Gray Commission's proposals implied that it would preserve only virtual segregation, not total segregation—an approach that many Virginia politicians defiantly opposed.53Joseph J. Thorndike, "'The Sometimes Sordid...