Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...flood’s effects between neighborhoods. Lower Ninth Ward, 2005–2006 The hurricane's and flood's catastrophic effects on the Lower Ninth Ward were chronicled extensively by the media. This neighborhood of generational families...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...more than sixty-three affiliated parent-led education clubs (the President's Cooperative Club) met with the district superintendent and adopted "resolutions approving the efforts of the commission council and the chief of...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...exist that question how photography frames Appalachia: what is contained and what excluded. This effort dates back to some of those images of the FSA Photographic Unit. As Marion Post...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...of Equity, leading to court-decreed sales of many components of his voluminous and diverse estate.5Milbery S. Martin (Executrix of Robert Martin) v. James B. Campbell, Bill for Account and Relief,...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...a place-based concept of authenticity relates to changes in the conception of rap's narrative voice: "The tendency toward narrative self-awareness and a more early definable subjectivity effectively closed the distance...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...asked why the mood and attendance had improved, Link pointed to the lobbying efforts of the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) in Washington, D.C. Those, she argued, "have made...
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
...made organizing more difficult, but did not completely halt the union's efforts. In one instance, UNITE organizers followed laid-off garment workers in the Miami, Florida, area into their new occupations...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...County, State of Georgia, United States, Including Numerous Incidents of More Than Local Interest, 1540–1922 (Atlanta, GA: The Webb and Vary Co., 1922), 33–4; Jerry R. Desmond, Georgia's Rome: A Brief...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...and dehumanizing effects before and beyond the grave. Off the coast of Grenada, several meters below the Caribbean surface, stands Jason deCaires Taylor's Vicissitudes. It is an installation of statues...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...and European religious traditions with current and historical ties to the site as well as a detailed recounting of the history of enslavement in the specific locale. The installation of...