Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...becomes a medicine cabinet whose magic is the reparative line from photograph to artifact to blood code that describes a history, something that can now be remembered; the depth of...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...Europeans, many Native American tribes had owned slaves, though none exploited slave labor on a large scale. With the introduction of African slavery, Indian nations also participated in the practice....
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...General William Richardson Davie's tomb dominates this Davie memorial. It stands at the east side, at the end of a path from the entrance on the west. The stones of...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...West Indian, African, or African American mammy-sphinx, who could evoke any part of the global plantation South, made out of eight tons of confectionery sugar coated over a foam structure,...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Eastern Branch in the District of Columbia, in present day Anacostia, age forty-two, born in Maryland around 1821. The 1870 census shows William and Bridget Tinney living east of Seventh...
Encountering COVID
...family he is brain dead, which he's not." When I woke up, I asked my wife when was Easter, and she said, "Boy, Easter been gone." And I say, "Where...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...Florida, 1939. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. If the trope of the mule recurs in Hurston's literary and ethnographic writing most famously as a feminized beast of burden, in...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...indulgent, generous even, in their embrace of someone at least proposing opera with a difference. In addition to historicizing Imoinda as art project, I cannot escape in the course of...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...vision. Often associated with rural and western spaces, coyotes have been migrating eastward for the past century and now occupy increasingly contested territory in major metropolitan areas, including Atlanta. A...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...Rather than focus on musicians, promoters, and others associated with the music industry, Hopkinson draws upon interviews with an array of participants—including collectors of live recordings, urban wear designers, suburban...