Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...39–58; John Michael Vlach, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts (Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978). Bottles, shells, pottery and other elements are held to ward off mystical dangers and...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...Claiming he knew about Michigan State long before it knew about him, Lewis elaborated: When we watched games on TV in the '50s, we were always looking for black athletes....
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...strict new rules for unemployment insurance eligibility after the National Unemployment Law Project and Florida Legal Services jointly filed a detailed complaint which argues that the new rules violate Section...
Local Color
...that the label "local color" and even the label "regional" generate, southern literature beyond the local color movement has continued to thrive on ambivalence toward the "normalizing" of national identity...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, and across the Gulf of Mexico from Mississippi to New Orleans. Blacks regarded these communities as vital sites of leisure, relief from wage labor, business opportunities, and—even if too...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005. From Dorothy Moye's Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition. 400-600 word proposals should include: a description of the major ideas, arguments, and sources for the...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...fountain in front of a store. Five girls and a boy watch a Ferris wheel on a neighborhood playground. Shot in 1956 by Life magazine photographer Gordon Parks on assignment in...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...that impedes our thicker understanding of the characters in the film. The novel's built-up mystery surrounding how Jewel got his beloved horse, which Darl frequently refers to as Jewel's "mother,"...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...be categorized, numbered, and made intelligible forms part of what Michel Foucault, in his History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge, called the "deployment of sexuality."3Michel Foucault, The History of...