Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...in tribute to Africana artists past. The 90th Birthday Paul Robeson Tribute at New York's Shubert Theater for instance, featured Christopher Reeves, Uta Hagen, Joeseph "Joe" Papp, and the Duke...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...singing its haunting, ancient sound? In Sacred Harp music, the tenor part may carry the melody, but each of the other parts (bass, alto, treble) have important roles. Composers also...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...of Pacific Rim communities, biological and cultural features of distinct regions, and in interdependence of all life along the Pacific Rim."1For a little of the bioregional history of Poet Townsend's...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...a dirt road through a cane field, terminating in a ditch.2Richard Misrach and Kate Orff, Petrochemical America (New York: Aperture Foundation, 2012), Plate 20, page 50. Patrick Clair, the director...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...obvious lust does not sit well with his wife, a prototypical icy mistress made even colder by Sarah Paulson's performance. She begs her husband to beat Patsey, only to be...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
Review For more than twenty years, scholars have sought in article after book after conference paper to expand the timeline, reach, and definition of environmental concern and activism. This uncoordinated...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...under the authority of a cave guide. In the panorama, Bishop becomes merely one of the dozens of cave sites: "Stephen," the pamphlet reads, "the most complete of guides, the...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...quiltmakers in other parts of the country favored printed fabrics at this time, solid colors were more common in inland parts of the southern states. The particular shades of red...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...for cheap melodrama, but the point gets across: Mason loves and respects his father, but he isn't about to pretend that the past didn't play out the way it did...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Hermanos (2010) and The Guestworker/Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte (2007). The Guestworker follows Don Cande, a participant in the federal H2A Guest Worker program, through a harvest season in North...