Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Healy, "Diabetes Belt: American South Gets More Health Notoriety," Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2011, accessed June 30, 2014, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/08/news/lat-diabetes-belt-20110308. Exhibited at the decaying Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn from...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...Doug Sahm) with the exception being Marcia Ball, who were already living in Texas or had gravitated to Austin's heterogeneous soundscape from New York, Los Angeles, or Nashville. Armadillo World Headquarters,...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...lynched African Americans for alleged offenses that challenged white supremacy, Villanueva argues that Anglos lynched Mexicans to police "citizenship and sovereignty" (5). Although Mexican Americans were "white by law" since...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...history, the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It requires no download and...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...(not marginal) to "the larger telos" of modernity, capitalism, and democracy (3). Island People, in its structure and vastness, also aims to be a syncretic work mapping and describing the...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...safe haven. They persisted in the face of jailings, beatings, shootings, loss of employment, threats, and other dangers. They were Foot Soldiers for Freedom and Justice whose efforts and example...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...diving into a swimming pool with a haunting narration from literary scholar Hortense Spillers. Without equivocation, Spillers warns, "I know that we are going to lose this gift of black...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...but once the trial began, gave harsh condemnation of the South and its people and institutions. Such subtlety often gets lost. Worse, Mace too easily picks up the moralistic tone...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...to expect Texas to serve as a funnel for black population to move southward, away from their homes and cities" (166).8Paulus suggests the planter elite lost power in the 1840s....