Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...preserve the culture and contributions of people of African descent."2Jessie Carney Smith, editor, Notable Black American Women: Book One (Detroit: Gale Research, 1991), 738. Two years after Matthews's speech, in March 1897,...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...remain and tend the land as their ancestors had for centuries. In 1998, UNESCO named Viñales a World Heritage site.2"World Heritage List," UNESCO, accessed March 15, 2012, http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/840. Some residents...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...
The Liminal Site
...to become part of an extensive network of linear parks across the metropolitan region. Birmingham skyline through the white oaks. Birmingham, Alabama, March 21, 2008. Photograph by Jon Smith. The...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...collected volumes as "his generation's 'finest contribution to American patriotism.'" And then there were the guides to major cities: New York and San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta, to name but...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the United States, due process and equal protection of the laws, House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons," and citizens' right to vote without regard to "race, color,...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Florida, May 15, 2010. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user inazakira. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. The author alongside Tennessee Williams, Gay and Lesbian Visitor's Center, Key West, Florida, March...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...into the modern era by the cheap electricity and federal intervention of the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority. (There are two TVA songs in the Truckers catalogues.)2The two songs are...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...one, adding thanks for "inspiring blackness as a true meaning towards creative expression."7Curtis Watson, Jr. to John Biggers, March 1978, and Al Blair to John Biggers, March 1978, John Biggers...