Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...Art in 2010 and includes over fifty photographic portraits and audio interviews with New Orleans rappers, DJs, producers, photographers, label owners, promoters, record store personnel, journalists, and other parties involved...
Local Color
...color writers might be seen as promoting a separatist view of region through their attention to difference and unique detail, but they might also be seen as arguing an early...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...some pot if you consider that a foible, he comes home late at least once which possibly makes his mom cry, he sometimes fails to do his homework—but no real...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...
Editors
...American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955; Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941–1960, and One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy, which was long-listed for...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...blend of natural and human history. The western half of the island is composed primarily of Pleistocene sediments deposited along a shoreline 40–50,000 years ago. Much of its eastern half...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...a Nun (New York: Random House, 1951). For an academic examination of historical narratives that influence the present, see Ewen Hague et al., “Whiteness, Multiculturalism and Nationalist Appropriation of Celtic...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...its visual spectacle, the installation greets our hearing and smell. Standing by the entrance closing our umbrellas and drying the bottoms of our dripping pants, we listen to the entering...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Terms & Solutions for a Post-Petrochemical Culture." The utterly disparate list—tagged with letters that refer to the sections of the Ecological Atlas but are otherwise merely alphabetized—includes everything from consumer...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...the Edgar Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His articles have been published in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Daily Beast, and others....