An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...children with his slave Sally Hemings, and that subject was still hanging in the air. Across the state line, it seemed, the ghost of Monticello lingered in Mount Airy.1Cynthia Wu,...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Mississippi, Illinois, and Missouri Rivers (3). As she demonstrates in discussing the Commerce Map—a rock drawing (located about 150 miles south of present-day St. Louis) that is the oldest known...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...and its auteur to garner several more golden statues. Just don't expect the drama to be confined to the movie itself. When McQueen went up to receive his honor at...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...St. Paul, Minnesota, April 15, 2010. Photograph by Fibonacci Blue. Courtesy of Fibonacci Blue. Outside of courtrooms state sovereignty has been gaining new momentum in recent years as a part...
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. Almo*]}*st all districts in the study had individual enrollment totals of at least 1,800 students. See full report at The...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...for best film, and Quvenzhané Wallis, his spunky, firebreathing star, may be crowned best actress. In the movie she plays the part of one of Louisiana's Katrina-surviving, throwaway children, but...
Race
...told, and not told, this tale. When Paul came East alone he was as they were, their brother. The poet invents heroic moments where the pale black ancestor stands up...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...plant, swamp, fetish, mountain, or coral sources, constituting what Allewaert discusses as an "ecologically inflected mode of personhood" (147). While most of the texts and artifacts analyzed were produced between...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...children who have suffered the most have stumps for limbs, tumorous skulls, gnawed mouths, empty eye sockets, and metal bars sticking out of their trunks. Blood- and pus-resembling liquid oozes...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...