How I Shed My Skin
...and partial desegregation" (40) of their sixth grade classroom in rural Jones County, North Carolina, where public schools officially desegregated under a begrudging gradualist "Freedom of Choice" plan. Describing himself...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...the ordinary. He wants us to rinse our eyes until we see, without prejudice, the exquisite poignancy of the seeming banalities of the everyday."6Glover, Michael. "Genius in Colour: Why William...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
Review I came to Brett Gadsden's work with some doubts of how and why the state of Delaware merited its own local study, and with growing apprehension about the proliferation...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...Bar in South Side Chicago—a site that demonstrates where generations of migrants transported and reinvented the blues. By the 1990s, most blues clubs were outside of the black neighborhoods where...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...expanding to discuss medical science’s responsibility to queer subjects. Homosexuality was considered a mental disorder up until 1973, and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) didn’t officially rule reparative therapies as...
Zircon
Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons on the mountainside and on the pasture hill a hundred years ago they'd no idea the little crystal bit they sought would...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
Interview Part 2: Morgan reads “Backwater” and discusses his history of coming to terms with his origins Part 3: Morgan reads “Heaven” and discusses the place of nostalgia in his poetry Part...
Work
Poem This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...and debt, creating seemingly inescapable cycles of poverty. Among these dire systemic restrictions, food scarcity was also strategically deployed by white government officials in LeFlore County through the 1962–1963 Greenwood...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...camp, it severed John Yoshida's head from his body. John Howard, John Yoshida suicide site, Jerome, Arkansas, 2004. Resistance to oppression comprises a range of behaviors, from the seemingly smallest...