Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...Johnson, and Brian J. Gilley (New York: NYU Press, 2016), 329, 331. Frank Thompson and friend at Stauch Bath House, Coney Island, New York City, New York, 1940–1953. Courtesy of...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...York: Praeger, 1986), 35. To reduce the number of surplus laborers, government agencies helped employers recruit Puerto Ricans for low-paid jobs in New York City. The last period of migration,...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...North, New York Times, September 3, 1864. Northern Civil War commanders made the capture of Confederate cities—specifically Atlanta and Richmond—and the crippling or destroying of the armies defending them, the major...
Encountering COVID
...gas pump this week. Valerie, North Carolina State Senator—December 2020 Photograph of Senator Valerie Foushee courtesy of author. On March 3, I was attending a conference in Charlotte, and I...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...Verey and Penelope Hobhouse. Looking into Ryan Gainey's Garden, Decatur, Georgia, March 26, 2010. Photograph by Flickr user JR P. Creative commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Chad Stogner, founder of...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...the March on Washington. Looking back on the summer's action just before the March, Martin Luther King, Jr., in an ABC television interview, argued that the events of the spring...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...the need for healthcare providers like my mother remains unbounded. Chronic sickness and death saturate the landscape. Home, July 2018. Collage by Eric Solomon. Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0....
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...brought a Greyhound bus full of Hispanics. And we'd bring them every week, fifty-something a week. . . . [And this was the beginning of what] we called our Hispanic...