Mississippi: State of Confession
...of segregation (228). Just as a statue of the Biblical prophet Moses is affixed on the dome of the Jackson, Mississippi, courthouse, the state's religious culture and legal racial apartheid...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
How To Navigate We’ve arranged Stand & Witness as a guided tour. We recommend that you move through the exhibition according to the numbered tour stops or “hotspots.” To start...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...for a year at Community of Hope, Tulsa's GLBTQ church; as a pastor of various United Church of Christ congregations on the East Coast; and as a person in critical...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...dependent on stolen slave labor. Post-Reconstruction politics did more than rewrite the cause of the Civil War—it also remade the space of the South: Confederate memorial statues were erected, often...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...this neighborhood almo*]}*st a year after the storm were cryptic markings on each house, recording the progress of first responders down the streets. Large spray-painted Xs on every home, with...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...remarks at the graduation ceremony to contextualize his career. "Most likely you do not know that your classmate, Mr. Pigford, is one of the most important civil rights activists of...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...museum culture post-Katrina. Another comment, whose author notes he moved from Brooklyn to live in the Bywater after Katrina—more or less proving Campanella's schema—claims that "Bywater is more like Fort...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...sound, as he stood straight and hard, not leaning at all. She stopped. In the silence he saw his mother standing above and behind the lamp, casting a shadow on...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...to the rest of Indian Country—much of which has had reservation status for a century now—or does it do something more? Andrew Adams III: I guess I'll jump in quickly....