Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...use the word "blues" to advertise her traveling act. With her husband William "Pa" Rainey, she toured extensively with a number of different traveling groups, including the famous Rabbit Foot...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Seven Stories Press, 2008). Walker's installation makes clear that the true cannibalism was the machinery of colonization and enslavement. Two photographs of a child carrying a basket inside Kara Walker's...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...makes this William Eggleston photograph new. Against the dress, the green grass and corn stalks fade. The light in the overcast sky takes on a kind of lurid hue. The...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...utilized the forest as a source of wild plants, game, and mast for their free-ranging livestock. Although their economy was "makeshift," without extensive surplus or accumulation, these early settlers rarely...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...to the ongoing debate about oil, ecological disaster, and southern Louisiana, while demonstrating the power of visual scholarship and spatial criticism. This debate will continue as Aperture makes Petrochemical America...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...trash, glowing debris, garbage that lights up—like the tossed-away sled at the end of Citizen Kane or the illuminated basketball hoops that David Hammons makes out of Harlem debris or...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...the realm of feminine friendships and her proximity to a pet reinforced, through distinction, Gault's humanity. Although the photograph was taken at the state farm, the shot makes it difficult...