Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...form of artworks in and of themselves. Major tribute programs were produced and presented in Broadway Theater venues—the Shubert, and Majestic Theaters, and Carnegie Hall—featuring Broadway-quality artists who celebrated the...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...River. These ventures offered many of the district's black residents an opportunity to don their finest clothes, picnic, and dance. Farther south, Methodist bishop Robert E. Jones established the nation's...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Institute of Technology, which a number of Muslim immigrants attended. Many of them lived in the city, near campus, but by the late 1980s, most of these families began moving...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...to protect national borders while rebuilding critical internal infrastructure. What has happened in New Orleans is, in many ways, no different than what has happened across the nation, particularly in...
Georgia Postcard
I. Atlanta The black men are fine and abundant at the airport. The women have spent many hours on their hair. II. Sixty-Five MPH All-u-can eat, boiled shrimp, fried fish....
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Tinny, age seven, born in Maryland c. 1843: Mary Tinny, age five, born in the District of Columbia, c. 1845; Francis Tinny, age three, born in the District of Columbia,...
The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In the wake of the thirty four-minute power outage that interrupted the Superbowl—held February 3, 2013 at the Superdome in New Orleans—journalists...
The Liminal Site
...on his way down—the Piedmont Virginia of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, all of whom would have been alive as he passed through—looks surprisingly like Birmingham's.4William Faulkner, Absalom,...
Brushes with War
...International Society of War Artists. In "The Joe Bonham Project" (named for the soldier in Dalton Trumbo's 1938 novel Johnny Got His Gun), more than a dozen artists focused their...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...shower cap walks down a road. She is centered and small. The landscape around her—the flat farmland, the big sky, the tin-roofed shack, and the two-lane highway—marks the place as...