Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...memorial piece, a Vietnam Wall in cloth. With the spiraling tree in translucent overlay, fading body, and stark black and white palette, every element of this piece is stark and...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...them down, even going on a stake-out in New Orleans.20Sibley, Turned Funny, 258. The children had gone to live with Cricket's parents in Indiana and neither Mary nor Celestine saw them...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...notes the role of US communists and allied labor radicals in promoting the argument, as the Southern Worker contended, that "the police, the courts, and the 'law enforcing' machinery are...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...people of color, and women. The extreme inequality in these states reflects a white southern legacy of a government/elite/corporate alliance that promoted slavery and the plantation system; post-slavery agricultural peonage;...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...of active reception. Why do we keep reviving and repremiering the classics? Because their essence, rather than the argument, lies in how the specific story is told today in the...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...singers. Today the singing also attracts members of singing communities in northeast Alabama, metro Atlanta, and further afield: singers in 2019 had traveled from New York City and Dublin, Ireland,...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...the air. See 93.3FM radio star Wild Wayne's oral history interview at http://www.nolahiphoparchive.com. Today, WWOZ's official policies regard rap and bounce as part of the New Orleans music canon, and...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...to either leave the state within a year or remain enslaved to be with her three children. Nancy’s story finds parallels in today’s Latin American migrants, who leave families behind...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...the time, there is this idea: we are going to say what our actual experience is in our poems, and we are not coding it. The code will be the...
Palomares Bajo
...were thoroughly othered, marked as "racially different." Their "miserable and abandoned hamlet" was contradictorily said to be "inhabited by dark-skinned gypsies and by descendants of the Moor[s]," a coded reference...