Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...Rivers, Langston Hughes Lobby, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, New York, May 22, 2011. Flickr photograph by Matt Kingston. This public art installation...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...Out," The New Yorker, February 8, 2010, 48–57, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/02/08/100208fa_fact_sanneh. Sanneh profiles the young gospel phenomenon Tonéx and his fall from grace in the black gospel world. Ironically, Harrison takes Heilbut...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...He is the author of Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion (New York: New York University Press) slated for release in November, 2014....
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...for $3,750. Straddling bubbling Stewart's Creek outside the village of Mount Airy, this 650-acre farmland would become their Xanadu—or, more pertinent and closer to home, their Monticello. On this new...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...threw up the first levees. No one had bothered before the floods, Powell dryly points out. “But this was how things went in New Orleans before New Orleans officially became...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...well as the company. In 2007 FedEx signed a new thirty-year lease (the first was signed in 1979) with the Memphis¨CShelby County Airport Authority. FedEx now leases 30.5 million square...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...Gulfport, Mississippi, 2005." Southern Spaces, September 1, 2008, https://southernspaces.org/2008/barge-washed-ashore-after-hurricane-katrina-gulfport-mississippi-2005. Moye, Dorothy. "Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition." Southern Spaces, August 26, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/katrina-5-x-code-exhibition. ———. "The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript." Southern...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Shirt: Terror After the Civil War (New York: Penguin Group, 2008); LeeAnna Keith, The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of White Power, Black Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction (New...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...squeeze, bind.'" See "sphinx (n.)," in Online Etymology Dictionary, ed. Douglas Harper, accessed June 30, 2014, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sphinx. The contracting sphincter muscles of the esophagi, anus, or vagina derive from the...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...of traditional knowledge, including handicrafts such as sweetgrass basket weaving, cultivation of unique agricultural species (e.g., Sapelo red peas), and Gullah-Geechee storytelling. Top, the UGAMI complex on Sapelo Island, Georgia,...