Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...The lesson to be drawn from this cursory glance at what I may call the past, present, and future of our Race Literature, apart from its value as first beginnings,...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...of one hand,” he writes in an essay published the year before his death. “Unlike the vast majority of those in academia or the literary world, I have nothing to...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...to consider environmentalism as a "field of movements" (5) that brings together actors, organizations and institutions from a variety of backgrounds at the local, regional, and national level. The field...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...delimit such a category—whiteness stands as a rhetorical fabrication bound up in the political contingencies of the age; for what makes these varied, even contradictory texts "white" is the way...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...we now know, it was all a bubble. People thought that their houses would forever go up in value. They used home equity loans from some place in Wisconsin, or...
"Aint that Something?"
...of Winter's Bone. Illustration by Jim Valentine, January 11, 2011. Courtesy of Jim Valentine. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. "Fuck You." © Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline...
Mississippi Delta
Essay Mississippi Delta region. Map by Stacey Martin, 2006. Sociologist Rupert Vance wrote in the 1930s of the "cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed" Mississippi Delta as "the deepest South." A half...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...sense of belonging, of identity, and of home—have confronted Cherokees for centuries. How they responded to such challenges has varied over time as sense of self and place shifted from...