Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...US economy, these patterns persist. Fifty-two percent of the public school students in the eleven-state South were eligible for free or reduced school meals in 2021, due in large part...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Society of the United States SPCA—Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Codes Elsewhere X-codes have been used in responding to disasters across the country through the years. Informal...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of slavery through landscape photography in his exhibition Elegy which I visited in January 2024 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Elegy features three photographic collections and two short...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...markings, 2007. The location of the code on a building was often an indication of when in the progress of the flood a search had been conducted. A code...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
Introduction The soil in the Mississippi Delta has everything a planter needs. Rooted in shallow soils, elm, cottonwood, and pecan trees line the hilly landscapes of eastern and southern Mississippi....
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...of fertilizer to the aquifer. This has been going on longer than the impact of the sea level rise. I wasn’t aware of the sea level rise until 2014, but...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...far been unable to convince Congress to fund such programs directly.4Jane Mayer, "Betsy DeVos, Trump's Big-Donor Education Secretary," New Yorker, November 23, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/betsy-devos-trumps-big-donor-education-secretary; Emma Brown, "DeVos Promises 'the Most...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...While Imre has a mostly happy ending, the novel still views the "love between two men" as a "nameless horror," one necessitating the mediation of social "masks" to be enacted.9Mayne, Imre, 111....
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Between 1960 through 1970, non-Black Latino activists Elizabeth “Betita” Mártinez, Maria Varela, and Luis Zapata lent their support to the movement. As first-time travelers to/through...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Press, 2008); Víctor Goldgel Carballo, "El fantasma de la raza: simulación, caricaturas y cosméticos en la Cuba del siglo XIX," in Miradas efímeras. Cultura visual en el siglo XIX, ed....