Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...2009 a major art invitational, Prospect.1, brought art installations and accompanying traffic into the Lower Ninth Ward. A conceptual installation by Berlin artist Katharina Grosse used an abandoned Holy Cross...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...History of Marihuana Prohibition in the United States (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974). For instance, although Bonnie and Whitebread note New Orleans's influential role in fostering marijuana menace ideology,...
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...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...as demonstrated by a 2006 advertisement for a rock band called "Dirty South."63"Book Blog," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, sec. F, June 11, 2006. The website for a cover band from Northeast...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...possible, either for much-needed cash or for installation in new factories elsewhere. Norris Dearmon, who worked for Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, North Carolina, for forty-three years, remembers when the giant...
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...
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
...11. The quotation from the NLRB judge also appears in Hodges, "J. P. Stevens and the Union," 59. Two years after the euphoria of Roanoke Rapids, the workers still had...
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...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...Administration, Richland County, South Carolina, Probate Court. Record of Admissions, Vol. 6, 114–15; Record of Deaths, 44–5, South Carolina State Mental Hospital. Certificate of Death no. 35328, Rosa Jones; South...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...which parcels they occupied.9The Cherokee Phoenix, Nov. 24, 1832, reprinted in "From the Cherokees," The Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette, Jan. 11, 1833, 2, http://www.newspapers.com; The Cherokee Intelligencer, Feb. 23, 1833, 1,...