Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...something as yet unseen in its scale, beauty, and monstrosity. The "wow" effect created by art, the monstrous beauty of the installation, the lightning making its way through the creases...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...or instrumental traditions—traditions that made up the musical climate in which Cajun music and zydeco came to be. Even given the considerable body of scholarship surrounding twentieth-century styles, for instance,...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
Introduction Artists Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan designed Prop Master: An Installation specifically for the Main Gallery of the Gibbes Museum of Art. In its totality, Prop Master constitutes...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...moments of personal narratives and public events through media of performance, installation, and projection. Memory Flash begins in the Old Fourth Ward, moves to Ponce de Leon Avenue at the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...and benefits (like education) in a calculatedly racist manner. For instance, states of the former Confederacy, like Alabama under its 1891 legal code, began to pay pensions to the "relief...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...music to outsiders. The rise of "southern" gospel emerged in response to a network of cultural tensions, social conflicts, and religious instabilities.12These longstanding conflicts precede the twentieth century. Southern gospel's...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...certainly peculiar. Joseph with his head tied in a pocket handkerchief, habited in an Indian Hunting short, and an old pair of cloth pantaloons, without neck handkerchief or collar. Thomas...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...and Social Change (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 35. In 1937, for instance, President Franklin Roosevelt wrote: It is an indispensable part of American policy that the coming generation...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...historical case study of LGBTQ+ experience in early 1960s San Antonio. Structurally, I begin with a brief history of San Antonio to situate us in place before analyzing how Weathers...
Genres of Southern Literature
...the capitalistic machine and the soul-killing effects of scientific dominance, they wrote one manifesto, I’ll Take My Stand. However, the more productive and effective channel for their cause was their...