The Black Belt
...Institution's Festival of American Folklife and aficianados of modern art at New York City's Whitney Museum. To the Black Belt, in increasing numbers each year, visitors from throughout the world...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...opportunity to pursue their specific struggles in a multiplicity of agonistic public spaces. By advocating a Green Democratic Revolution, I have been delineating how I think the left populist strategy...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...such as New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. Never taken too seriously by most scholars, Miami remains a deeply understudied city. As election polls and media reports often suggest, it...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...Regional boycotts, in 1952, of service stations and restrooms refusing to serve Black people were organized in Mound Bayou.3Peter Brown, "Strike City, Mississippi," Anarchy 7, no. 2 (1967): 33–37. And,...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...American writers in south Florida largely in the final decades of the twentieth century. Lowe is exhaustive and syncretic, weaving disparate strands across multiple locales from multiple perspectives. He is...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...to a twenty-three million dollar campus in 2000, paid for by the state of Louisiana.1This is the number my wife (NOCCA '04) told me when I asked her on Gchat...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...number one on Billboard's Pop charts and included "Ramblin' Man" and "Jessica." Leavell recorded two more albums before the Allmans disbanded. Emerging from the break-up with his rock/jazz/blues fusion group...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...our fellow citizens in the city. Our hope is that in some modest way the project will contribute to important conversations about class inequalities and race in the city. I...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...a certain way, or to be assessed by a white gaze."2See Nijla Mumin, "LAFF Review: Arthur Jafa Conducts Multilayered Exploration of Blackness in 'Dreams are Colder than Death,'" Indiewire.com, June...