Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...members of her community, many who sought their freedom by way of fugitive paths, to love themselves, fully and deeply, precisely because of the white world outside the safety of...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry… I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...silhouette (also visible in Background Material and Welcome Home) stands in for the face of this free black, who was never respectfully depicted during his lifetime. A former slave, Vesey...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
Essay At historical plantation sites, where the subject of slavery is difficult to avoid, Park Service interpreters struggle to present the subject in the least offensive manner. Interpreters at Arlington...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...by that upheaval and diversity. What is "southern studies" today, well into the twenty-first century, in the age of the global-superpower United States? Whatever it is, we think it is...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...to a twenty-three million dollar campus in 2000, paid for by the state of Louisiana.1This is the number my wife (NOCCA '04) told me when I asked her on Gchat...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...vaccines available for over two years. Shutdowns and enforced quarantines ended, even in holdout nations. The WHO's announcement signaled that other countries, including the United States, would follow suit if...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...style rendered broader participation possible and facilitated increased exchange with singers from other regions of the United States, a process which in turn precipitated changes to regional singing practices. James...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...and Spanish colonialism. The Tremé developed around Congo Square as one of the first neighborhoods of free people of color in the United States in the late eighteenth century.1For more...