Love and Death in Mississippi
...Usually she would wake my two siblings and me at 6:45, leave around 7:00 with makeup done but hot curlers still in her hair, return around 7:45, remove the curlers,...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...some forced to sleep in their cars, while landlords capitalized on increasingly scarce housing. Ultimately, most residents returned to their former land as tenants and employees of the federal government...
Remnants of Flannery
...on a journey from which they return changed. As a writer of fiction and drama, Drago describes O'Connor's influence: "[Her] work has absolutely influenced my fiction, in much the same...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...peacefulness" of the past they had known before the war (55–56). Kieffer returned from war and found a "ruined country, poverty stricken people, and no currency!" Looking out on a...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...May 2006 to prevent the return of its residents. Photography included in "Funerals and Second Lines" beautifully details the artistry, power, and purpose involved in neighborhood-controlled events. A "Mardi Gras"...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...II ducking Nazi sniper fire with General Patton. How his return home to racism in Mississippi was, as James Baldwin wrote, like "a certain hope had died."1James Baldwin, "Letter from...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...reform through sound, pulling viewers along slowly and reluctantly through the terrain. “In This Here Place” & “Evergreen” Elegy returns to the photographic on the remains of defunct plantations in...
Failed Memory Exercise
...And turned east, clattering toward the cotton gin, And returned empty, and faded beyond the track. Beyond those yards, where one day the sallow Dozers rolled and skinned back the...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...historical, racial, and political—diasporic indigenous peoples can and do remain rooted in common memories, traditions, and pasts.1William Safran, "Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return," Diaspora 1 (July...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...makes the case for publicly acknowledging this history. Many of the Negro parks were simply shut down, sold off to private interests, or allowed to return to nature. Others were...