The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...and edited two poetry anthologies [The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (2004) and Lyric Postmodernisms (2008)]. Courtesy of The University of Pittsburgh Press. Shepherd met his partner, Robert Philen, in Ithaca,...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...Sublime: Ecology and Resistance in the American Plantation Zone," is an expanded version of a piece Allewaert published in PMLA.2Monique Allewaert, "Swamp Sublime: Ecologies of Resistance in the American Plantation...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...pleasures of outdoor leisure. An invisible line along Central had already divided the city into north (white) and south (African American) sides. African Americans moved to St. Petersburg in search...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...the American Negro Academy, an association of African American "men of science, letters and art or those distinguished in other walks of life" was founded in Washington, DC. It's purpose...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...his people had long resided on.2We assume this Indigenous leader was Muscogee, but the older African American oral accounts we heard referenced him as "Indian" or "Native American." White settlers...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...African Americans, the local newspaper evidence reveals little connection between these groups and marijuana use. The lack of African Americans identified among those arrested for marijuana during this period appears...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...facing all streams shaping Cajun culture, among which Lomax lists French, African American, and Native American. The culture was primarily rural and under significant economic stress. While Flaherty romanticizes living...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...for American Studies at the British Library. His research centers upon on African American history and literature since 1865, with a particular interest in African American media and print culture....
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...has changed, but nothing has changed." The recent string of deaths of African Americans at the hands of white police officers and white racists weighed heavily on everyone's minds. Many...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...exhibition of the African American Great Migration, visitors were forced to chose between passing through doors marked “White” or “Colored.”7Jo Blatti, “Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940,” Oral History Review,...