Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Americas. Some half-million enslaved arrived at forty-one documented sites in the United States. At these arrival ports a significant portion of American history began. Relying principally upon information from Voyages:...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...these United States without becoming subordinate to the will of the Anglo-Saxons," as it had been with the Negroes in the South, whose enslavement stood as the central issue in...
On Fair Use
...higher education. The United States Copyright Office outlines its "fair use" policy in Section 107 of Title 17 of the United States Code, enumerating "various purposes for which the reproduction...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...the United States (2012–2014). She directs the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. Many of her poems first appeared in various forms in Callaloo, a journal that for her serves...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...Removal are far-reaching: to remove entire cultures from their home places is to remove and forever change many different though overlapping national literatures. Today, the majority of Native writers affiliated...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...half of the United States will emerge with a majority of low-income students within the next five to seven years. Currently, such students constitute forty-six percent of US public school...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...idealized accounts of "Dixie." Denigrating stereotypes deployed in Song of the South prevented its release, in its entirety, in the United States, although the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" won the 1947 Academy...
Brushes with War
...change with the decades. Our capacities for taking lives, and for saving them, seem to increase over time. But the combat artist seated with his sketchpad still looks very much...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...artist. Born in Memphis in 1939, Eggleston grew up there and in Sumner, Mississippi, at his grandparent's home. While Eggleston has worked across the United States including Califorinia, New York,...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky, July 27, 2009. Photograph by Jason Meredith. Courtesy of Jason Meredith. All of this supports Salafia's central premise: that this economic exchange and racial activity...