Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
Review Sarah Mayorga-Gallo's Behind the White Picket Fence explores how race, class, and ethnicity shape daily life and power sharing in "Creekridge Park," a pseudonymous multiethnic neighborhood located in Durham, North Carolina. In the early...
The Dirt Eaters
...famili ar as the smell of dirt. Published in The Venus Hottentot (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
Review "Lynching of Negroes is growing to be a southern pastime," declared the Reverend D. A. Graham of the A.M.E. church in a sermon preached in Indianapolis, Indiana, as part...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
Review The Virginia Historical Society (VHS) in Richmond, Virginia, has mounted an ambitious, highly original, and innovative exhibition on the history of the Civil War, "An American Turning Point: The...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...North Carolina. Logan is originally from Nashville, Tennessee, and Page grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. Each has an extensive career as an artist, with solo and group exhibitions throughout...
1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
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...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...for Photography, the Museum of Fine Art Boston, The Light Factory’s 4th Juried Annuale in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the University of Maine Museum of Art Photo National 2011 where...