Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). Rennie Collection, Vancouver. Image © Dawoud Bey. Right, Open Window, from the series In This Here Place, 2019, Gelatin Silver Print by Dawoud Bey (American,...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Fred Fussell offers additional geographical and historical notes in A Chattahoochee Album: It is believed that Native American people . . . had lived in and around the Lower Chattahoochee...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Native American subsistence systems in the Delta changed over time to include various horticultural practices. The amount of horticulture and trade practiced by the Native American societies did not show...
Encountering COVID
...on social media." I could do the same thing. I could do Americans of the pandemic. Who We Are Now—that was the name right from the beginning. I know that...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...meaningful continuities. William Faulkner, for example, influenced iconic Caribbean writers Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant and also made a pronounced impact on South American writer Gabriel García Márquez.1Valérie Loichot, Orphan...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
A City Divided
...and black occupancy increased, elite whites became distressed about more African American homes, which they equated with urban disorder. From 1899 to 1910, the number of households within the declared...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...they tell a story central to Arlington and mirror an even larger story of black Americans who lived through the transitions from slavery to segregation. Here rest roughly 3,800 people...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...American bohemia. Yet Athens kids built the first important small-town American music scene and the key early site of what would become alternative or indie culture. We had grown up...