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...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...knew we had to have some because the film is about a specific place, the Lumbee homelands of North Carolina. But we didn't have a budget to drive to place...
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...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...of the place attachment expressed by residents, the town's population increased after the rebuilding periods that followed numerous floods. Like Princeville, the town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, also came about...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...wanted to learn Spanish and to learn about Latin America, so I could to figure out not only about the places these North Carolina farm workers were coming from, but...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...questions of authorship and interlinked notions of authority implicit in the attempt to write across boundaries of race, gender, and class, effectively positioning myself out of place as an artist. Who...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...repositories of Africana art, as places of historical significance in their own right, and as places and resources for Africana art making and creativity. Africana archives in the United States...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...14, 1997. Mr. Ibrhaim and his daughter continued to place objects at Nannie's memorial for several years. Inspired by this example visitors across the subsequent years have placed objects, including...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...ghost of a dead civilization, as the ghost of Hellenic culture was evoked in thirteenth- to fifteenth-century Italy," insisted that "surely nothing of that sort took place in the South."...
Palomares Bajo
...all Spaniards are familiar, to contribute to a movement for redress that is perhaps best mobilized through multilateral engagement. Barring electron microscopy, cameras may have limited utility in the search...