New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...development of these genres in New Orleans."1Christopher Harter, "Help Support Amistad's Expansion of Music-related Holdings with Hiphop Collections," Amistad Research Center, December 3, 2013, http://amistadresearchcenter.blogspot.com/2013/12/help-support-amistads-expansion-of.html. The importance of including hip-hop...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...Historical Society. Unfortunately, the VHS chose to include a section in this exhibition titled "How did Slaves Support the Confederacy?" The question itself suggests that slaves actually supported the Confederacy,...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...decades of memories. In Chicago, for example, longtime residents Deverra Beverly and Beatrice Jones, who feared their presence would be forever erased, supported the establishment of the National Public Housing...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...and to draw some parallels with 1980s black women artists is also to acknowledge–at best–indifference, alongside a lack of infrastructural support, issues of skills and knowledge gaps, and a commensurate...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...
The Liminal Site
...with a Chinese or Japanese provenance—daphnes, gardenias, camellias, lacecap hydrangeas. (While there were several evergreen azaleas already on the property, however, I was not tempted to add to their number.)...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...and inspiration, realizing that they were creating something that other people wanted to experience.1Aku Kadogo, phone interview with author, March 10th, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. The students' performances...