Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...delimit such a category—whiteness stands as a rhetorical fabrication bound up in the political contingencies of the age; for what makes these varied, even contradictory texts "white" is the way...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...reimagining a New Orleans broken by flood and evacuation; True Blood, swamp-and-vampire melodrama full of bodies and camp and carnivalesque violence; and True Detective, a show that might fall under...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...elements to call into question the American variation on the desire to be terrorized by the supernatural, the psychosadistic, and the patently absurd. Our history is laced with horrors we...
Congregation
...diadem, the crown on a monument—a glory wreath. That is what I saw as I drove the flat land—down Highway 49—toward home. Up close now, beneath it, I see what...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...up and out behind him. He fell slowly onto the small of his back. His legs flew straight up and bounced to the pavement. He writhed as blood poured from...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...
The Liminal Site
...vertical feet down from the ridgeline and about 250 feet above downtown.1We now live in North Vancouver, British Columbia, but—since we moved during the Great Recession—we were unable to sell...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of fancy.2Edith Mayfield Wiggins, telephone conversation with author, July 10, 2014. Hers was a childhood surrounded by art publications and crafts in various media, and included museum trips to New...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...of black folk painter Clementine Hunter, he too used the vast storehouse of vernacular lore and lyric amassed over a lifetime to validate his bona fides as a white person....