Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of the University of North Carolina yearbook, Pine Needles. During Gwen Jones's college years, 1959–1963, Greensboro was a center of civil rights activities, best known as the site of the...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...R1701. Percent of Children under 18 Years Below Poverty Level in the Past 12 Months (For Whom Poverty Status is Determined): 2004," http://factfinder.census.gov/ (accessed July 16, 2007); Mark McArdle, "Poverty,...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...discourse about race, citizenship, and nationhood for years to come. Spectacular, immersive paintings of famous military clashes provided mass entertainment and compelling commemorative meanings for US audiences. At the peak...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...after securing his two-year-old son and running away from his master, to a free space, "those thick forests that seem to hold the new world in their arms" and living...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the huge economic and political forces that buffeted all of us in my little Bibb County town. In January of this year, I came back home to stay for the...
Religion and the US South
...Southern Baptist or African Methodist Episcopal, Episcopalian or Pentecostal. From early settlement, religious forms adapted to a stratifying social reality but also enabled southerners to give voice to yearnings that...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...master-slave relation. At least half a dozen slaves ran away from Arlington over the years before he died in 1857. And there was an incident with an overseer on one...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...of one hand,” he writes in an essay published the year before his death. “Unlike the vast majority of those in academia or the literary world, I have nothing to...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...glorifies nor sanctifies. Nichols proceeds with care, illustrating the ways in which all intimacies are negotiated and far from simple. Midway through Loving, after living for some years in exile...