Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...wall, but the owners booked beach music bands because people still wanted to dance the shag. John says the leather shop he ran sold rolling paper under the counter, but...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...the mountain and now at the top edge, was the familiar jutting rock of Fallam Point. "Is Montefalco totally gone?" Earl Dotter, Oldhouse Branch Refuse Valley Fill Impoundment, Enterprise Mining...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...Met, Eggleston uses a small, quick camera and color to build a vision that evokes as well as challenges Evans's aesthetic. Shot straight-on from eye-level in black and white, Eggleston's...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...from the mid-nineteenth century by artists from America, Africa, and the Caribbean,"5"About Us," Hammonds House Museum. http://www.hammondshouse.org/about-us.html. Sipp draws inspiration from Gallery 72’s design and history. Though the gallery's glass walls...
Besieged Terrain
...wildlife. Because it uses heavy equipment, mountain top removal employs relatively few people. And because it's very profitable, the technique has spread. MTR has destroyed more than 1.4 million acres,...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...York: Domino Sugar Factory. From Robert Southey, to Voltaire, to Victor Schoelcher, to Aimé Césaire, abolitionists, philosophers, and poets alike have used the trope of blood to denounce the dehumanizing...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...American Revolution when a handful of prescient leaders in mountain towns of what is today Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina ascertained that the long knife republic was not going to...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...an intellectual and political pitfall because it can obscure the fact that criminality itself is always politically and culturally constructed. See Paul Gootenberg, "Talking About the Flow: Drugs, Borders, and...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
Review Rowan County Court House and Jail, Salisbury, North Carolina, circa 1905-1915. Courtesy of the Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at...