Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...5, 1814 edition of the National Intelligencer. Matilda, the grandmother of Francis, appears thirteen years earlier, in a runaway slave advertisement in March 1814, having escaped from Benjamin Sprigg. When...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...too many winters away from their last paint job. For the boys from those houses, only football, and maybe the army, provide a way out. The former football player in...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...short life of the postracial was a consummation devoutly to be wished. The postracial was at best a distraction from the work of progressive politics and at worst a way...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...fence. Since the statue faces away from the road, and since the woods behind the cemetery are thickly overgrown, the only way nowadays to see the front of the statue...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...become? Shall he smash his skull against the paving stones? Shall he kill his torturer? Or do you believe the human heart can find a way to bear such misfortune?"...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...racing along the highway crept into my left ear. Untitled (James River), from the series Stony the Road, 2023, Gelatin Silver Print by Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). Virginia Museum...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...NCDOT aerial marker indicating the highway right-of-way, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Looking at I-26 from Dale and Lurethra Fluty’s yard, near the head of Sprinkle...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...that which would rot away and be lost? Why was I being taught that any security I might ever have would be after I was dead? I was a child,...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...hop production company, Organized Noize, at the heart of this week-long arts celebration: "Organized Noize Productions and the Dungeon Family collective become highly visible examples of the ways [in which]...