A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...no one was singing the blues." See Drew Magary, "Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson Gives Drew Magary a Tour," GQ, January 2014, http://www.gq.com/entertainment/television/201401/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson. The gothic trope of entrapment that Toomer dramatizes...
Congregation
...Here is North Gulfport— its liquor stores and car washes, trailers and shotgun shacks propped at the road's edge; its brick houses hunkered against the weather, anchored to neat, clipped...
Love and Death at Second-Line
Love and Death at Second-Line NEW ORLEANS — Sixty people stood at the corner of Ursulines and N. Robertson, in front of the ramshackle Tremé watering hole, Joe's Cozy Corner...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...p.m. - Arrive at the farm house of Barney Hester, 2932 Hester Town Road. (This is where the altercation occurred leading to the arrest of Roger Malcom, Sunday, July 14, 1946.) 5...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...bring together research projects, resources, and information about the Atlanta metro region and inspire new scholarship. Atlanta Studies (www.AtlantaStudies.org), which launched Feb. 16, is an open-access online publication that features...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...twelve works based on James Weldon Johnson's transformative lyrics, set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson, and often referred to as "The Negro National Anthem." The quilt exhibition...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...in "local color" passages on voodoo and black spiritual churches, here dubbed "Negro cults." But these sacred institutions, rooted as they were in the culture of West Africa and the...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...sight. This bad negro, the property of Chang, was reported one night to be in the negro cabins of a slave owner near Mount Airy. The citizen went with his...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...radical vision."3Marlon Ross, "Introduction" to Houston Baker's speech at the University of Virginia in the spring semester of 2012, https://blackfireuva.com/2012/03/. Selena Sloan Butler, ca. 1899. Photograph. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
Janet Powell, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005. Located north of Oak Ridge and about thirty miles northwest of Knoxville, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm was built in the 2000s as...