Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...a decade in New York City, where she worked as a photo editor and ran an art gallery, Clay returned to Tallahatchie County in 1987. “Moving back. . . to...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...cityscape.10I am grateful to my friend and colleague, Professor Naïma Hachad, who helped me brainstorm during and after the exhibit and enriched this piece with her insights. We ran towards...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...employ" for the next century (9). They marketed crafts to "bolster their ethnicity" (22), pursued a "strategy" of separatism from black Mississippians in the face of Klan violence (28), and...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Cambridge University Press, 1981); Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984); Christine Stansell, City of...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...pastoral views of plantations or on cityscapes: reminders of the unacknowledged presence of the almost 2,500,000 slaves who lived and labored in the US South. These works reinscribe the presence...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...a major press in New York City is certainly intriguing, and I was compelled to find out more. Brennan's research had led him to the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...In Crystal City, the site of a major Mexican American struggle, blacks "comprised only 2 percent of the population, or less than two hundred people," Behnken explains. "Few blacks traveled...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...of a major American city in the midst of catastrophe — bodies floating in the floodwaters, people huddled on rooftops and highway overpasses, the grisly situation at the Superdome, the...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...growing and transforming American city,” Simone says. “I was more interested in discovering what was not known about Atlanta and experiencing it than in reinforcing that conventional lore. Over time,...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...