The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...remembered from living there as a child—landscapes and cityscapes that were completely and permanently changed. Somehow I had gotten into the Gentilly neighborhood and was searching for an exit. Vaguely...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...we changed names slightly. But we knew that there were so many people of Latin American descent in the area, and the fact that we didn't give any addresses where...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...and politically underrepresented "Chocolate City" of the 1980s and 1990s. Despite feelings of nostalgia and anxiety, Hopkinson embraces the change in the city's makeup, one she attributes to new attitudes...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...it had begun, with a consideration of the meaning and effects of Grant's having changed his name. Stein's "Grant" begins: Grant in his very early life was under obligation to...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...the movement. Rethinking the American Environmental Movement also engages larger structural changes within the US economy and society, such as mass suburbanization in the 1950s and deindustrialization in the 1970s...
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Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of Fine Arts, Gift of Mrs. Alfred duPont, by exchange. Image © Dawoud Bey. Our local historian tour guide took us down the river path while detailing the experiences of...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Miami's queer landscape radically change once more, with the 1959 Cuban Revolution and other Cold War era political and cultural shifts. Many bemoaned the fear of losing "Miami after Dark."6Capó,...