Mississippi Delta
...of cheap labor, on which Delta plantations depended. By 1910, tenants operated ninety-two percent of Delta farms, and ninety-five percent of those tenants were African American. New ethnic groups also...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...to justice. The world then lost track of Northup, as the date, place, and manner of his death remain unknown. Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, 2013. © FoxSearchlight. Like McQueen's...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...and Last Objects, Left on Porch of Evacuated House address particular issues of loss—the loss of a place to worship and pray; the loss of a place to socialize, drink,...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...(not marginal) to "the larger telos" of modernity, capitalism, and democracy (3). Island People, in its structure and vastness, also aims to be a syncretic work mapping and describing the...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...safe haven. They persisted in the face of jailings, beatings, shootings, loss of employment, threats, and other dangers. They were Foot Soldiers for Freedom and Justice whose efforts and example...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...history, the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It requires no download and...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
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...