Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...convincing poor whites that enslaving African Americans was in their best interests. Jennison surveys white Georgians' opinions on racial and class divisions to great effect, mining the 1852 and 1853...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...planters attempted to deny them. In their best moments, these essays transition into something resembling historical ethnography. White's contribution brings us into the underground economy of Louisiana's slaves who pieced...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...shore overlooking the Florida Straits; a Westerner looking East from the "southernmost," you think how intricately tangled all of our histories are. You look down; the Sankofa bird looks up...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...well as class and color lines, I look for imagined black futures in archival holdings. In addition to my research, I work as an assistant curator for the African American...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...might lead to the idea that slavery was morally wrong. Some late-eighteenth century planters and physicians had concluded it was, and that slavery was at best a necessary evil. Their...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...to workshop that week, was a shot of my tour guide, looking off into the distance, the nearly barren branches of trees etched uncannily across her face. Her body and...
Substantiation
...while and drink a pop, to make it look right, look real. * In the nervous ward, Reed remembers Milam with the gun asking did he hear anything. Reed remembers...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...demeanor of Parks's subjects belies the injustice of the "separate but unequal"1Charlayne Hunter-Gault, "Doing the Best We Could with What We Had," in Gordon Parks: Segregation Story (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl,...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...from "the hellfire," and turns instead toward the sound of "a cuckoo bird" that "keep a hollerin' Ha! . . . It look like rain, lawd, lawd, it look like...