The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...work from Hale County, Alabama, that documents the subtle and dramatic changes remaking the area’s vernacular architecture and environmental landscape year after year. Rankin’s photographs of Mt. Tinna focus viewers’...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...19, 2014, http://www.indiewire.com/2014/06/laff-review-arthur-jafa-conducts-multilayered-exploration-of-blackness-in-dreams-are-colder-than-death-159613/. Although two years have passed since my first viewing of Jafa's Dreams, Spillers's provocative statements, along with the film's powerful bridging of the lyrical and the sonic,...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...forty years to overturn the Brown decision. School Choice Programs in the United States, 2019. Map by Steve Suitts. Courtesy of the Southern Education Foundation. In the short run, the...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...of rape—Haywood Patterson, Clarence Norris, Charley Weems, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Ozzie Powell, Eugene Williams, and brothers Andrew and Roy Wright—collectively served more than one hundred and thirty years in...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...election, novelist Colson Whitehead published a characteristically biting New York Times editorial entitled "The Year of Living Postracially": "One year ago today, we officially became a postracial society. Fifty-three percent of the voters opted...
Brushes with War
...Brown, whose assault on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry that year seemed an omen of war. When a larger meteor penetrated the earth's atmosphere the following year, the artist...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...drove her to take up the cause social justice in such a decisive way? What gave Anne and Carl the courage, year after year, to dedicate everything they had to...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...Steamboat Natchez, and grassy Woldenberg Park. Sitting here on a blanket on a sunny April afternoon during French Quarter Fest, it would be easy to miss that only forty years...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...and the rest of the Americas, played a fundamental role in the formation of its society and culture" (6). "Carte de la decouverte faite l'an 1673 dans l'Amerique septentrionale," 1681. Earliest...