Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...serving life sentences at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. In the aftermath of Tyler's conviction, outrage emanated throughout the country, from college campuses in Southern California to the street...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...the country, founded in 1772 (known today as the Dumbarton United Methodist Church).2The church was formerly located on Twenty-Eighth Street between M and Olive Streets, N.W. (formerly Montgomery Street between...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
O'er this wide extended country, Hear the solemn echoes roll, For a long and weary century, Those cries have gone from pole to pole; See the white man sway his...
How I Shed My Skin
...adults' repetitive aggressive assertions of supremacy. If racist verses structure childhood games—sung on playgrounds, chanted outside churches—a vast repertoire of nigger jokes reveals how entrenched and persistent white anxieties remain,...
Artist Repertoire Index
...Step it Up and Go Sun Going Down Talk to your Daughter Tell Me, Rider That’s All Right Mama True Love Wake Up, Rider William Robertson Blues Bryant, Precious (1969,...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005). Top, Jones Lake State Park, Bladen County, North Carolina, ca. 1940. Photograph by unknown...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...his wife, Martha Custis Washington. After Mrs. Washington's death in 1802, a number of her slaves at Mount Vernon were inherited by Martha Custis Peter, adding to the Peter family...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...a Sunday to vend vegetables and dance the Bamboula, squats in the park's southwestern corner, adjacent to the Municipal Auditorium. To jazz aficionados, it’s a spiritual site. Nowhere else in...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...public domain. As the Indian government's recent efforts to regulate that country's maps makes clear, maps are not neutral documents. A declaration form for entry into India distributed to passengers...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...river. What you get is an increase in algae that grows really fast and then blocks sunlight because these are large mats of algae on the surface of the creeks....