The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...squeeze, bind.'" See "sphinx (n.)," in Online Etymology Dictionary, ed. Douglas Harper, accessed June 30, 2014, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sphinx. The contracting sphincter muscles of the esophagi, anus, or vagina derive from the...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...the Department of Art and Design at Missouri State University. He has received a number of awards for his photographic work including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...survey, they had a discrete number of questions that they asked across different neighborhoods, they made a map of it—this was exactly what we’d do with structured data, and they’d...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...to home, are linguistically bereft: there is no term to describe the successful interface of natural and built environs. Outside cities, we have any number of categories for describing natural...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...the summer of 1938. By taking to the road, Daniels was following the lead of a number of writers who set out to see the United States in the midst...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ship's deck, did not enter service until 1998. Although the net value of shipping continued to increase during this period due to trade in grain and petroleum, the number of...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...a significant number of African American fans, her depiction of Atlanta and her search for what Massey calls "a place-called-home" during times of dramatic social change is that of a...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...