At Sun Ra's Grave
...glitter, the universe whose stars, you said, are writing of the destiny of those within the hand of fate. Tonight, the haunt the ridge where Vulcan's gauntlets hold no torch,...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...a joyous coming to voice, but Faulkner's fiction seems destined to remain a generative place of productive dialogue about race and racism.15Werner, "Minstrel Nightmares." In this still relevant essay from...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...own histories. While traditional migrant destinations such as Miami, Los Angeles, or New York loom large in demography and popular consciousness, many locales have significant and diverse foreign-born populations. “The...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...bridge touched either side of the Alabama River. And since the early 1990s, the "spectacle" of an annual Bridge Crossing Commemoration has become a tourist destination and an authenticating ritual...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...history and its aftermath. It was in part a political decision. I did not emerge from a middle-class cocoon destined to write and to find a privileged place in the...
When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...down into the ground toward its unknowable destination. At moments, clusters of pipes soar above River Road in an industrial-scaled, welcoming archway and then disappear into the fenced boundary of...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...the other way to west, to wilderness, to where the future waits to open out its shining promise, destiny. Backwater meant new water then, where greatness waited, tilted toward the...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...of mythical folklore and blues quotidian life.18Bordelon points out that one of the "Negro mythical places" included in her automotive guide excerpt, "'Diddy-Wah-Diddy' . . . [is] a magical destination...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...