Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of Fine Arts, Gift of Mrs. Alfred duPont, by exchange. Image © Dawoud Bey. Our local historian tour guide took us down the river path while detailing the experiences of...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Miami's queer landscape radically change once more, with the 1959 Cuban Revolution and other Cold War era political and cultural shifts. Many bemoaned the fear of losing "Miami after Dark."6Capó,...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...it had begun, with a consideration of the meaning and effects of Grant's having changed his name. Stein's "Grant" begins: Grant in his very early life was under obligation to...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...the movement. Rethinking the American Environmental Movement also engages larger structural changes within the US economy and society, such as mass suburbanization in the 1950s and deindustrialization in the 1970s...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...we changed names slightly. But we knew that there were so many people of Latin American descent in the area, and the fact that we didn't give any addresses where...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...and politically underrepresented "Chocolate City" of the 1980s and 1990s. Despite feelings of nostalgia and anxiety, Hopkinson embraces the change in the city's makeup, one she attributes to new attitudes...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...in Money, Mississippi, in August 1955 and was lynched for it—catalyzed men and women into an irresistible movement for change. He's right; so many people roughly of Till's age when...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...place, history, and cultural expression that began to change listeners' perceptions of sonic authenticity. Miller understands folklore not as the expressive artifacts of isolated or otherwise historically separate communities, but...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...privileged in static narratives or histories. The Ghost Map series, for example, is a composite of vector-based GIS layers, archival materials, and oral histories that document changes in the physical...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...