Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...the locations of highway deaths are created from a sense of memory to bestow respect on those who have passed. They express the universal uncertainty of our survival each time...
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?"...
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,...
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...
The Liminal Site
...on his way down—the Piedmont Virginia of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, all of whom would have been alive as he passed through—looks surprisingly like Birmingham's.4William Faulkner, Absalom,...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Pettus bridge and march towards Montgomery along US Highway 80 ("Jefferson Davis Highway"). As marchers retreated across the bridge onto Broad Street, four carloads of white possemen pursued the protesters and...
Deep Ellum Blues
...the period, and not limited to black cemeteries). View of Stringtown, 1947, before the construction of Central Expressway. Central Expressway seemed to enshrine a new social geography as well. It...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...arts and an elevated expressway down the middle of South Claiborne Avenue. (The plans for the expressway had been drawn up in the 1946 by the legendary master-planner from New...
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]...