Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
Naming Each Place
...learning to love his hometown, gay Black identity, the visibility of southern poets, and autobiography in poetry. Part 2: Trethewey and Brown discuss the place of region in writing and the...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...its largest section to this groundbreaking author. But instead of putting Carson on a pedestal, where she often sits in public memory, Spears places her in context, showing how she...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...Museum serves as one of Atlanta's premiere institutions of African American and African diasporic art. The July 12, 2015, event was titled #homeplace, an homage to bell hooks's essay about black women's homes as sites of resistance and to Hammonds...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...Grauman's to those who love both Hollywood the place and Hollywood the slightly seedy state of mind. From what I could see, there was only one star present. Patricia Arquette,...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...the gleaming marble headstones marking the final resting places of the Methodist leaders associated with the early years of nearby Emory College. She called our attention to the beautifully maintained...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...site, a place where visitors could pull off the highway to stop at the memorial, a place for meditation and for ongoing education. Former Greyhound terminal, downtown Anniston, Alabama, 2009....
Sonic Zora in Florida
...(Orlando: University of Central Florida Press, 1991), 149. Hurston's shrewd rhythmic elongation of a north-of-the-border place (a place where Black fugitives found shelter from those who sought to return them...