Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...Wata, the titular voudou figure who grants life and death to those lost at sea—also sanctify the victims of the violence their objects traverse. Through Julia Kristeva's notion of "muck,"...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...no. 377, Records of the Office of the Comptroller of Currency, National Archives, Record Group 101, microcopy 816: Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedmen's Savings and...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...visible intervention or investigation is required. When the disciplinary structures of society seem most invisible, we liberal subjects feel like we're free of them. In S-Town, following McLemore's lead, Reed...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...from 2000 to 2005. He is the author of Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (2010) and Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...with her adoptive mother, schoolteacher Annie Lee Jones.3Roland Freeman, "Journey of the Spirit: The Art of Gwendolyn A. Magee," in Barilleaux, Journey of the Spirit. Fascinated with color, Magee recalled trying...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...well-defined boundaries and members. Each will devise rules for appropriation suitable to the environment, along with sanctions and penalties for those who violate the rules and take too much or...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...burning oyster shells), and sand. Researching tabby led to an interest in plantations and the enslaved, when, in 1997, I recognized some distinctly Ghanaian (Gold Coast) names embedded in Malcolm...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...reinforced many of the lessons provided during my extracurricular activities. Classes and conversations with Professors Sonia Sanchez, Bettye Collier Thomas, Greg Carr, Valethia Watkins, and Mario Beatty, among others, strengthened...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...runaway slave from Georgia, hiding the fact that he was once a free man from most of the people he met in order to avoid even more brutal treatment. Northup's...