Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...since time immemorial. Among the earliest evidence of human beings as art makers are the rock carvings and engravings found throughout the African continent that date back to the sixth...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...program of research on the human costs of the disaster. The program itself was supported by the Ford, Gates, MacArthur, Rockefeller, and Russell Sage Foundations, and sponsored by the Social...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...McEwan's novel, Lessons (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022), is scheduled for September 2022. CDC Main Campus, Atlanta, GA. Image in public domain. From my perspective as a recently retired...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...is open to any and all willing to seek out the hollow square. Prof. Don Saliers leads at Cannon Chapel, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, February 2005. Image courtesy of Patrick...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...meaningful continuities. William Faulkner, for example, influenced iconic Caribbean writers Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant and also made a pronounced impact on South American writer Gabriel García Márquez.1Valérie Loichot, Orphan...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...rises coughing up water, gasping air, her feet dragging the bottom like an anchor trying to snag waterlogged wood or rock jut and as the current quickens again she sees...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...play and joy that I’m seeking more of in the work lately. And the game pieces are really about the celebration of sex and sexuality— Solomon: The Joy of Gay...
The Liminal Site
Red Mountain Garden Location of Smith's house, Birmingham, Alabama. Copyright GoogleMaps, 2013. My backyard garden is sited on the steep north slope of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama, about sixty...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...the Hutchinson Semi-Weekly Gazette concluded that the murderer "was almost a stranger in town, and probably a southerner."27Hutchinson Semi-Weekly Gazette, January 21, 1905. Sometimes Kansans gauged the superiority of the...