Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...it was only a matter of time until the myth of postracism exploded in our collective national face."1Peniel E. Joseph, "Our National Postracial Hangover" Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 July 2009....
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...a sensitivity to African Americans unimaginable at the time of the centennial of the war. On the other hand, polls reveal that nearly half the people in the nation believe...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...and the idea of recasting history for new audiences and times. He discusses how he drew from lived experience in Havana to craft Winter Escapes as well as how his...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...literature of natural language processing because I don’t have the time to do it effectively. While I know enough about the text mining work that I’m doing right now in...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...as a "confection": "Kara Walker has confected a Subtlety."12"Creative Time presents Kara Walker's A Subtlety," accessed June 30, 2014, http://creativetime.org/projects/karawalker/. The artist is a pastry chef, a candy-maker, a sugar...
Mississippi Delta
...and by the time of the Civil War, Wade Hampton III owned 900 slaves on property scattered over two Delta counties. Greenwood LeFlore was another successful planter, a Choctaw who...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...since time immemorial. Among the earliest evidence of human beings as art makers are the rock carvings and engravings found throughout the African continent that date back to the sixth...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
County White Alone, #, 2000 White Alone, %, 2000 Black Alone, #, 2000 Black Alone, %, 2000 Chattahoochee 8,643 58.08 4,453 29.92 Clay 1,290 38.43 2,030 60.47 Decatur 16,126...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...