Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...fare and indie flicks) is known informally as the Before Trilogy (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight). Beginning in 1995 and released nine years apart, these films focus on Céline...
At Sun Ra's Grave
Birmingham, 2001 Now our god's dismantled, iron arms, iron hands now laid away, vacant head beside his vacant feet. Vulcan, God of All the Fire That Sleeps in Mountains now...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...serving life sentences at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. In the aftermath of Tyler's conviction, outrage emanated throughout the country, from college campuses in Southern California to the street...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...(1984); Jane Landers, ed., Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the America (London: Frank Cass, 1996); and Margo Pope, "Slavery and the Oldest City," The St. Augustine...
Residues of Border Control
...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
...Shocked and galvanized by the toll of the epidemic, Peel served on the board of directors of AID Atlanta and helped found Positive Impact, an organization dedicated to providing mental...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...offered this alternative. Charleston's ex-slaves expressed the counter-narrative in vibrant public festivals and Emancipation Day celebrations near the end of the Civil War and throughout Reconstruction, reflecting the freedmen and...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...the Protestant Apprentice Boys of Derry defended the city against the monarch's claim to divine right. More recently, the Free Derry civil rights movement represented a modern freedom struggle. On...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...Cherokee force that fought the Red Sticks as allies of the United States. For Inskeep, Ross's service represents the effort of some Cherokees during this period to accommodate an expanding...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...articulate their freedom within the context of Pan-Africanism. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, my writing of Imoinda was not only interested in presenting challenging black women. Instead, as Guarracino notes, the project as...