A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...previous two films, 2008's Hunger and 2011's Shame, 12 Years a Slave is gorgeously shot, edited with a jeweler's eye, and uses its sound design to bleed scenes into one...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...of segregation as meaningful political, social, economic, and historical realities, but also in the distinctions between desegregation and integration (terms far too often used interchangeably). Because of his attention to...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...of the new house they had been planning for some time. With Adrienne Herndon as architect and husband Alonzo as builder/contractor, a two-story Beaux Arts Classical house was erected adjacent...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...temporarily and inadequately—corners of respite from the indignities of Jim Crow. Pavilion scene, Carr's Beach, Maryland, July, 1956. Used with permission from WANN Radio Station Records, Archives Center, National Museum...
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...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...becomes a medicine cabinet whose magic is the reparative line from photograph to artifact to blood code that describes a history, something that can now be remembered; the depth of...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...different symbols and traditions came to its most mature form in a pair of murals, Tree House and House of the Turtle, begun in 1990 at Virginia’s Hampton University and...
New house, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1996
Premier Elkhorn Coal Company refuse fill, Pike County, Kentucky, 2005
Remnants of a house by the tracks, Penland, North Carolina, 2007