"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...of time and space, and functioned quite differently when considered in the varied political, social, economic, and racial contexts to which it was subject. To put it more simply, in...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...War is so often considered a local war of brothers versus brothers but this map indicates is vast and impersonal scale and scope. In this way and others, the modern...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...shape of these heads from pernicious stereotypes (the form also appears in Portrait of Denmark Vesey and his video Welcome Home). African Americans were considered background, as much in the...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, 2015. Video by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Recording Exchange in Wales and Appalachia In 1974,...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...and bounce in this collection, in a city where these musics are so often segregated as something different––considered unworthy of preservation or protection and support as cultural heritage––cannot be overstated....
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...David Pierce played drums. The members of Pylon, then considered the Athens band most likely to follow the B-52’s to international fame, heard the performance and invited Oh-OK to open...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...the threshold of citizenship" (16), being considered, for instance, as three-fifths of a person in the 1787 US Constitution (11). She links this disaggregation to the process of creolization, which,...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Submissions proposed on or before January 31 will be considered for fall 2011 publication as part of the Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South series. Brian Gauvin, Lower Ninth...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
Review: Something magical is on display in a tiny gallery at the University of Virginia Art Museum, a small selection of photographs that play off each other like the ingredients...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...game. According to Szarkowsi, when Alfred H. Barr, Jr., then the director of MOMA, first saw slides of the Eggleston photographs being considered for the 1976 show, he observed that...