Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...struggle to resettle, build new homes, plant new gardens, and learn about new weather patterns. It demanded a reimagination of who the Cherokee were, how they connected to the world,...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...of the gender politics of True Detective: "Cool Story, Bro: The Shallow Deep Talk of 'True Detective,'" the New Yorker, March 3, 2014, http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2014/03/03/140303crte_television_nussbaum. He fails, loses his marriage and...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...textbooks. But nearly every major US newspaper covered the events of March 1931 in northeast Alabama. The news of successive Scottsboro trials reverberated globally, prompting demonstrations from Cape Town to...
Besieged Terrain
...from a strip mine on its south-southeast border, Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Kentucky Heartwood. Strip mine on the south-southeast border of Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
Review In the years surrounding the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision, state legislatures as well as county and municipal governments in the US South hastily built new "colored"...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...was panned by art critic Hilton Kramer, as "Perfectly banal, perhaps. Perfectly boring, certainly."2Hilton Kramer, "Art: Focus on Photo Shows," The New York Times, May 28, 1976, 62. The New...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...era, the cruel treatment of re-education camp detainees shaped the forced migration of thousands of former Southern Vietnamese political prisoners. Many South Vietnamese sought new identities as they resettled in...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...of Fermor's classic.10Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, "Introduction," in The Traveller's Tree: A Journey through the Caribbean Islands (New York: New York Review of Books, 1950, 2011), ix–x. The genealogical link is apparent....
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...the country, Jefferson’s two maps themselves seek new forms of belonging in a nation defined by racial disenfranchisement; and to reckon with how a static map elides the constant histories...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...hooks, Art on My Mind: Visual Politics (New York: The New Press, 1995), 57. For most Black and white community photographers, local demands and conventions of circulation limited the reach...