Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Union Band Society and Mount Zion Cemeteries. The old Methodist Burying Ground was purchased in 1808 by the Montgomery Street Church in Georgetown, one of the first Methodist churches in...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...students (approximately 2/3 of all US public school students) in 2008. Almost all districts in the study had individual enrollment totals of at least 1,800 students. See full report at The...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...of a national network of what anthropologist St. Clair Drake used to call the "vindicationist school" of black intellectuals. Responding to what I have called the reigning unwisdom of the...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...and dehumanizing effects before and beyond the grave. Off the coast of Grenada, several meters below the Caribbean surface, stands Jason deCaires Taylor's Vicissitudes. It is an installation of statues...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, were formally excluded from the beach after the Army Corps of Engineers cleared the mangroves and laid down the miles-long strip of white sand along the Mississippi Gulf Coast....
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...against "clumsy" and reductive concepts of social and cultural change and instead uses structure to link fifteenth and eighteenth century Native political economies (10). Although these structures were fundamentally altered,...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...its first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson. He then returned north where he has spent most of the last forty years—primarily at Yale, Northwestern University, and the University of Pennsylvania—teaching and...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...Asian immigrants settled near a handful of geographic centers along the West and East coasts and the Southwest of the United States, but in recent decades immigrants have increasingly gravitated...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...wrist #1, Forrest, Orlando, Florida, 2016. Photographs by Forrest Lawson. Courtesy of Forrest Lawson. Solomon: Your Limp Wrist cast series also represents how a singular experience can be displayed alongside...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. While these stereotypical depictions of the region exist across a broad range of media, photography has a...