I-26, Corridor of Change
...the coming of I-26 might evoke through the framing, detail, and texture of photography. The result was not a pro- or anti-development project, but one that voiced a range of...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Dallas onwards, which treated Deep Ellum as "Harlem in Miniature," "Deep Elem Blues" has served as the emblematic song of the blues experience in Dallas (though it shares a number...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...the second Klan, structured as a national fraternal organization, coincided with the growing consumer availability of automobiles; mass public Klan processions featured Klansmen in cars, as well as on foot...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...white. African Americans and whites still congregate separately in the newly integrated Lake Meer, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia, June 12, 1963. Photograph by Ken Patterson. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...McEwan's novel, Lessons (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022), is scheduled for September 2022. CDC Main Campus, Atlanta, GA. Image in public domain. From my perspective as a recently retired...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Departments—Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Reunion—the incidence of diabetes is twice as high as in continental France. "Le Diabète Explose en France: 2 Fois Plus de Diabétiques dans les Dom-Tom Qu'en Métropole,"...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...encounters of diaspora, pointing to the project of extending their theoretical framework of collusio into broader, Africana frameworks. About the Author Meredith Frances Coleman-Tobias is a PhD candidate in the...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...dress, not the landscape, pops out. It is lush, overripe, frame bursting. In Untitled (Near Minter City and Glendora, Mississippi) and other photographs taken in the 1970s, Eggleston begins constructing...