Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
Introduction Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 10, 2005. Photograph by Brian Gauvin. Coded markings indicate the structural instability of this home in the Lower Ninth Ward, washed from...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
..."American Craze for Marihuana Builds Industry," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), March 10, 1924; "Arrest Marihuana Seller," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), March 10, 1924, 14; "Marijuana Seized Valued at $3,000," Times-Picayune (New Orleans),...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...tagging photographs (for example, the #appalachia hashtag on Instagram.) As Sontag notes, "photographs echo other photographs"8Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, 84. ; we recognize something in Tamara Reynolds's portrait...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...its legacy: Around 2005, Middleton installed a permanent exhibition on slavery in one of its outbuildings, known as Eliza's House, listing the names of about 2,600 enslaved people associated with...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...The installation of historic markers at the forty-one Middle Passage arrival ports publicly designates these places as crucial points where the lives of European and African people intersected to form...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
Introduction Introduced in a 1995 song by the Atlanta-based group Goodie Mob, the idea of the "Dirty South" spread quickly throughout the rap music subculture and industry, and by the...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...concentration camps behind barbed wire.24"Georgia: Gene & Junior," Time Magazine, September 7, 1936, 10–11. And last though not at all least, the use of convict labor had a profound and...
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
...records, WHS, 396. SEJ put pressure on Stevens through letter-writing campaigns, demonstrations and rallies, television and magazine ads, and protesting at stockholder meetings. In January 1978, for instance, SEJ paid...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...apple trees of Brush in the Water, Little Nelly's cook house, the garden lot of Susan Peacock, and Tarloke's loom house.52Cherokee Valuations, Georgia, RG 75, T496, Reel 28, frames 10,...
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...