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,...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...a reflex of nausea rather than hunger, an indigestion created by our consumption of sugar made possible by our exploitation of fellow humans. This luxury turned into necessity changed the...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...has changed, but nothing has changed." The recent string of deaths of African Americans at the hands of white police officers and white racists weighed heavily on everyone's minds. Many...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...Everyday Black Creativity and its Relationship to Political Change," Feminist Arts News Vol. 2, no. 8 (1988): 8. Imoinda might easily not have survived into the twenty-first century. I had...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...it suited them. I don't know what to think, but one thing I do think, some things have got to change in this town, and change now. In the months...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...Public Schools." Southern Education Foundation (2015). http://www.southerneducation.org/Our-Strategies/Research-and-Publications/New-Majority-Diverse-Majority-Report-Series/A-New-Majority-2015-Update-Low-Income-Students-Now. ———. "Update A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South and Nation." Southern Education Foundation (2013). http://www.southerneducation.org/News-and-Events/posts/April-2014/Juvenile-Justice-Education-Programs-in-the-United-aspx.aspx. ———. "A New Majority: Low...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...States is here generally broken into a number of subgenres of rap and bounce, though the definitions and boundaries of these categories are fluid and often change according to whom...