Sonic Zora in Florida
...newer version of the Soundscriber Hurston would have used, New York, 1944. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image in Public Domain. Bottom, Zora Neale Hurston with Rochelle French and Gabriel Brown,...
Deep Ellum Blues
...blacks lived in Minnesota, but the road builders found them."6Quoted by Dan Baum, "Letter from New Orleans: The Lost Year: Behind the Failure to Rebuild," The New Yorker, August 21, 2006,...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...of the gender politics of True Detective: "Cool Story, Bro: The Shallow Deep Talk of 'True Detective,'" the New Yorker, March 3, 2014, http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2014/03/03/140303crte_television_nussbaum. He fails, loses his marriage and...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...Poems and a Pandemic" in Political Emotions: New Agendas in Communication, ed. Janet Steiger et al. (New York: Routledge, 2010). And, as a happening, poetry has a particular power to depict...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...Walker Evans. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/96818680-baca-0132-6504-58d385a7b928. Bottom, Homes and land cultivation, Arthurdale project, Reedsville, West Virginia, 1935. Photograph by Walker...
Editors
...Divide, a New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. She is also the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...producer and author of The Gospel Sound,2Anthony Heilbut, The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971). a foundational history of black gospel, is the...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...of Education, ed. Gary Orfield and Susan Eaton (New York: The New Press, 1996). The percentage of Latinos and African Americans attending predominately minority institutions within each district is tabulated....
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...the wounded teenager, later identified as Timothy Weber, died in the local hospital. "That single shot," New York Times journalist Bob Herbert reported in 2007, "set in motion a tale...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Coronavirus Response (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2021); Lawrence Wright, The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021). Their narratives and additional reports, published...