Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...individuals marked, the meaning of the resulting spontaneous codes usually left town with the painters. Unidentified code, hand-drawn from memory. Drawing by Frederick Barton. Frederick Barton describes encountering a unique...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d9317bb0-baca-0132-749d-58d385a7b928. The same was true of African Americans—another group often associated with marijuana use during this period. Bonnie and Whitebread, for example,...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...family in Columbia, South Carolina, and a cluster of black Clifton families between Columbia and the Savannah River—in the Barnwell County townships of Barnwell, Blackville, Bamberg and Diamond Hill, and...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...describes the equipment needed to produce a live Bass experience. Sample from DJ Magic Mike, "The Man with the Bass, " Cheetah Records, 1994. Orlando-based producer DJ Magic Mike crafts...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...workers at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, Atlanta, Georgia, 1915. Courtesy of Georgia Tech Archives & Records Management, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Digital Collection. The experiences of women in...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...sitcoms about single mothers like Alice.59See, for instance: Cowie, Stayin' Alive; Enke, Finding the Movement; and Beth Bailey, "‘She Can Bring Home the Bacon': Negotiating Gender in Seventies America," in...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Swimmer and Terrapin in Rome's first execution.18Z. B. Hargrove to Governor Lumpkin, June 19, 1835, in Hays, comp., Cherokee Letters, GAs, 303–04; Battey, History of Rome, 211, 248 (Battey attributes...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...and subversion of frames as devices that circumscribe the spatial, temporal, and conceptual boundaries of a work. For instance, Bailey's installation, Windward Coast–West Coast Slave Trade (2009–18)—which is comprised of...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...This further reconfigures the popular perception that slavery was a phenomenon only of the US South. When a marker is installed in the Sapelo Bay area in Georgia, it will...