Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of slavery through landscape photography in his exhibition Elegy which I visited in January 2024 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Elegy features three photographic collections and two short...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...characters and readers of the novel. How can American Indians, very much including American Indian writers and the enterprises of American Indian literature and criticism, repossess dispossessed southeastern homelands and...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...that was supposed to protect and negotiate with Indians. Between 1805 and 1827, the state held five lotteries to give away land that had belonged to the Muscogee Creek Indians....
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...of intense slavery-based extraction), could be found, beyond eastern Cuba, throughout Latin America, including rural parts of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Pacific lowlands of Colombia, parts of Brazilian...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...bullied, and bribed the southeastern Indian nations to emigrate west of the Mississippi River while the southeastern states asserted sovereignty over Indians and claimed rights to their land. No state...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...remain active in Mississippi.8Gloria Oladipo, “Mississippi Quits Child Food Program amid Republican ‘Welfare State’ Attack,” The Guardian, January 13, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/13/mississippi-child-school-food-program-welfare-state. Autonomy and/as Collard Greens: On Emancipatory Food Power The...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...loved Vincent in code: / (F) hearts (V)." This hyper-coded, anonymous and pseudonym-onous form of queer ontology and relationality is the received narrative of queer life at midcentury, when studies...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...had established "Avon Indian Farm" near the creek. In Sheriff Odum's telling, the mummified Indian was discovered "stretched out under a big old tree."1Odum's account is quoted in a laudatory...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
Bransford: Before we talk about An Unflinching Look: Elegy for Wetlands, can you talk about your personal history with the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge? And then describe the Refuge in...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...[conscious of being] Indians. Let them know that we are not Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, we are nothing but Indians and will remain [nothing but] Indians . . . The...