Mardi Gras Indian, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010
Central America Protest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 25, 1984
According to Duke Yearlook: Members of the Students for a Democratic Central America counter-protesting a demonstration done by the Central America Solidarity Committee. Members of the Central America Solidarity Committee...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...county-level results of the presidential election between Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Barack Obama scaled by population density. Illustrator Chris Howard designed another map which overlays county-by-county election results with...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...a chorus of animals: "'I'm hungry. I want to poop.' But sometimes they start talking in codes." How do we make our way into the coded life of other species?...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...West Indian, African, or African American mammy-sphinx, who could evoke any part of the global plantation South, made out of eight tons of confectionery sugar coated over a foam structure,...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...with the NAACP, the trials led to landmark Supreme Court decisions. Powell v. Alabama affirmed a defendent's right to competent counsel, and Norris v. Alabama challenged the exclusion of African...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...Europeans, many Native American tribes had owned slaves, though none exploited slave labor on a large scale. With the introduction of African slavery, Indian nations also participated in the practice....
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...that has given solid footing to African American literature and theory, and the emergence of postcolonial, transnational, and other multicultural critical discourses — in light of these events, Eliot's dream...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Bailey has inserted into the American mind, through the channels of the gallery and the museum, indelible images of African American memory. The signature is immediately recognizable. Memory as Medicine—curated...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...States, as an unmitigated statement intended especially for our colleagues in literary and cultural studies and for those in the multiple disciplines in Africana and related studies. Our message is...