The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Japanese person again.54Kōgakukyū, 134-5. Koya believed that while the war had created negative images between Japanese and Westerners, Japan's leaders had been treated with respect. As the historian Yukiko Koshiro...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...tableaux incorporate some X-code markings. Still others remain as unwitting testimonials on neglected, deteriorating structures barely touched since 2005, default memorials and commentaries. The repetition of the X-code on house...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...ghettoization, and destruction, as well as protection. Although in contemporary life we tend to ignore coded messages not meant for general interpretation, the scale of the X-codes, both numerical and...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...the productively provocative place of Faulkner's varied and offensive representations of race, whether as static stereotype or troubling paradox. As Anne McKnight has argued, contending with complex Japanese hierarchies as...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...a plain-spoken accuracy that makes them seem suddenly exceptional."1Elizabeth Judd, "Books in Brief," New York Times, August 12, 2001. Six years after Given Ground came Pancake's first novel, Strange as...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...literary-activist tradition in the United States is this tension between what Martinican poet-philosopher Édouard Glissant might call transparency and opacity, the desire for love between two men expressed publicly versus...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...docile acceptance of incarceration—then the human agency of suicide can constitute struggle and can be equated with resistance. In the continuing, complex relationship between reportage and resistance in the concentration...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...discussion of 'southernness' sometimes engendered solidarity between southern and northern black youth, it also expressed divisions between these two groups. Within the context of rap, black southern participants often expressed...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
Infant gravesites, Japanese American concentration camp cemetery, Rohwer, Arkansas, 2004