MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...in numerous galleries, including Get This Gallery, M Rich Gallery, Beep Beep Gallery, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Kibbee Gallery, and the Atlanta Preservation Center. In this clip, Dowda discusses her life-altering...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...internacional: Ulises ha triunfado recientemente en México con una obra que curiosamente reconstruye la trayectoria de otro artista exiliado, Dámaso Pérez Prado, y Celdrán ha paseado sus Diez millones por...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...information—not a diary or journal or letter, not even a mention of them in anything but official records like deeds, probate files, and court minutes. Many of the gravestones they...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...as free people of color) living under and against such systems—carving out unique spaces, whether economic, cultural, or sexual, in which they exercised the very agency that colonial officials and...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...locating their poems in specific historical and social sites. There is, I argue, a red thread of American poetry that has consistently and productively represented race as a spatial rather...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...States, but its location, Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) in the West Indies, is an important site of slavery and revolution in the African diaspora where plantation slaves experienced barbarous conditions eliciting...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...the USDA discriminated against all poor farmers, southern USDA officials focused on black farmers. The dramatic events of Freedom Summer in 1964 eclipsed an important SNCC initiative to elect black...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
Review Water Graves investigates how contemporary writers and artists of the greater Caribbean (such as Jason deCaires Taylor) reinvest sites of racialized violence and environmental degradation—as so many manifestations of...