Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...Other sites at which a commemoration would be appropriate include the old bus terminal, which still stands at 1031 Gurnee Avenue, in the heart of downtown Anniston. "The bus station...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...study the National Park Service commissioned on LGBTQ historic sites. I contributed a chapter on Miami that narrated existing (surviving) physical sites. This work challenged me to think very differently...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007). For Cuban writer Antonio Benítez Rojo as well, the sites of slavery and...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...Bluesman Floyd Lee filmed a portion of his bio-pic here, and websites feature the Lounge in English and French. The Hiter family gave Mr. Seaberry a lifetime lease on the...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...and imagined spaces and places make connections and comparisons between southern regions and/or locales and sites in the wider world use textual, visual media, archival, and ethnographic materials—including artistic expressions—to...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...Afro-Indigeneity. On one level, “Tapera de Angola, or Palmares,” brings into intimate relation phonemes from three languages: “tapera”, an Indigenous Tupi word referring to a ruined or destroyed settlement; “Angola”,...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...tide reveals complex dendritic drainage patterns in tidal creeks, with a road, telephone wires, and power lines as human influences on these environments. 1:53 – This is Cabretta Beach, with...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...