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
...to define the "mountain man" (Figures 10, 11, 12). The same visual conversation occurs when the gendered "granny" stereotype in Adams's portrait of Barbara is repeated and contradicted in other...
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...