Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Barton spoke for many when he commented, "That first day and for many thereafter, we did not understand what the mark meant. In fact, I am not sure that I...
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
...who wear such a Grindr mask and what that mask means for the queer revolutionary present. Much of José Quiroga's work on masks and codes in the Latin American context...
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...
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,...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...next-door neighbors — I was thinking about getting a few chickens, and would that be okay with them? — and was again surprised that they had been thinking about it,...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...I thought, what might be discovered at the core of the art-making that Imoinda represents. It is useful to know, for example, that the interview was conducted in the context...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...found in individual identity; instead he insists that we must develop an "analytics" that views power as diffuse and capillary, refusing the perhaps too-easy notion that a power over sex...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...African Americans, in his neighborhood, saying that Mullins got what he deserved and that others would get the same ("Given 150 Lashes," "Overseer Killed: Conspiracy Formed by Negro Laborers to...
Genres of Southern Literature
...during the time, what we see is that the South's race-based institution of slavery was the driving force behind literary production. A southern slavocracy, sectionalist and ultimately nationalist, is what...