Oil on the Chandeleur Islands from a plane, Off the coast of Louisiana, 2010
Cotton modules and gin, Tallulah, Louisiana, 2006
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...Magazine," Offbeat Magazine Lets Just Shut Frenchmen Street Down Comments, March 14, 2012, accessed December 19, 2014, http://www.offbeat.com/2012/03/14/lets-just-shut-frenchmen-street-down; Michael Welch, "Music Rights: An Educated Opinion on New Orleans' Noise Ordinances...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...police in the 1960s, to our contemporary moment of hyper-surveillance and police brutality, US society can view Black suffering’s ever-mounting evidence. Photographer and visual artist Dawoud Bey explores the history...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...bring a rapid deterioration in their condition, especially if they moved to a colder climate. The (allegedly) high mortality and morbidity rates of free blacks in the North, Nott claimed,...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...penultimate line, "What a strange thing is 'race,' and family, stranger still." The poem's middle stanza takes an unexpected, if lovely, self-reflexive turn. While the other two stanzas offer us...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...and its auteur to garner several more golden statues. Just don't expect the drama to be confined to the movie itself. When McQueen went up to receive his honor at...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
"Made by Mary Louisa Snoddy Black—‘The Tulip’ design. Cousin Theresa Snoddy helped quilt it." History: The Tulip was one of the most popular appliqué patterns in the Carolina upcountry during...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...case of the last interview in Brother Towns was a guy named Juan. He only wanted to give his first name, and we only used first names. In some cases...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...electing the nation's president and the House of Representatives. During much of the first half of the nineteenth century, most southern states followed the leadership of South Carolina's John C....