Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...stories, if we don't try to create dialogue, people remain voiceless and in the shadows. The immigration debate in Jupiter from Brother Towns, 2010. Then the opposite side of the...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and the Pop Art Movement to frame his discussion of Buddy Holly as both songster and producer. The studio meanwhile comes to represent the site where "the echo effect of...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...racial equality with heritage entrepreneurship, Alabama tourism officials are acknowledging the state’s rich concentration of civil rights sites. The marking of physical space in Scottsboro makes memories tangible. Donations of...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...that in time my Mississippi will overturn HB 1523 on its own. The state's history offers little to support such hope. The language of HB 1523 is clear, identifying three...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...wrote passionately about this "double consciousness" of African American identity. MARBL and Woodruff Library contain extensive holdings of The Crisis, the NAACP's official journal. While his early pieces adhered to...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...and relentless as the muddy river itself. Divided into eight chapters, Choctaw Resurgence offers a careful reconstruction of Choctaw agency. Osburn writes often about Choctaw strategies that were employed or...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Restraints: Open and Hidden" however, these seemingly prosaic images prompted threats and persecution from white townspeople as well as local officials, and cost one family member her job. The calm...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...France during World War I, and was frequently asked by French officials for her name and birthplace; she found watching them try to imagine how to write and spell "Allegheny,...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...of the striking miners are African American, and he felt a strong spirit of solidarity across racial lines. The miners Dixon spoke with were upbeat, ready to keep fighting for...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Civil War Centennial Center, Downtown Richmond, 1962. Courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center. No other place embodied that particular spirit of 1961 quite as well as Richmond, the former...