Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...Pakistan)." Not quite on par with the extremist Hindu right wing's demand in India: "Babar ki santan / Jaao Pakistan ya Kabristan" ("Descendants of [the Mughal Emperor] Babar [i.e., Muslims...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Journal, March 12, 2007. Already, the city is the third-largest rail center in the United States and operates as a hub for five US Class I railroads: Burlington Northern, Santa...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...& Views from a Few Spirited Georgia Democrats" declared that the poll is important because Atlanta elections are typically decided by Middle Atlanta, with its "multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-ideology, and multi-partisan" makeup....
Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
Review By the middle decades of the nineteenth century, the cause of worldwide abolition was riding high. Nearly a half century had passed since revolutionary fervor put slavery on a...
Quilting Conversation
...assistant in Photography and Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum and managed web design, publications, and other media initiatives at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. She is...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations and her wives and daughters to pollution and violation to satisfy the lust of half-civilized Africans."1Charles B. Dew,...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...his voice," as Comentale explains, "or, rather, he declaimed it—he sang it in order to free it, in an open, vital process, one that asserted, with each refrain, the utterly...
Theories of Time and Space
...loose stitches in a sky threatening rain. Cross over the man-made beach, 26 miles of sand dumped on the mangrove swamp — buried terrain of the past. Bring only what...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
Introduction Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 10, 2005. Photograph by Brian Gauvin. Coded markings indicate the structural instability of this home in the Lower Ninth Ward, washed from...