Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Deal era federal food programs. Similar to the exploitative credit system that forced Black farmers to lease land and equipment from plantation owners at outrageous interest rates, access to food...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...in Congress during the last decades of the twentieth century. Home to a highly educated black middle class rooted in institutions like Howard University, DC experienced a similar urban crisis...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...and Cocker, The Colourful Mr. Eggleston. A similar quote graces the wall of the Met's exhibition: "I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that...
The Place of Appalachia
...Rates), Appalachian Regional Commission. These contrasting examples point more to class distinctions than to any absolute difference between Appalachia and large urban centers, for globalization and neoliberalism generate similarities and...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...120] Whether or not the handkerchiefs in Rosa's quilt were products of this local factory, similar bandannas would have been widely available in local stores. Construction: Rosa Benson Snoddy framed...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...shows the political forces that made those Kansans "silenced" compared to their counterparts in the South. Similarly, William Carrigan and Clive Webb's essay on the lynching of Mexicans in Arizona...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...a similar argument in "Mega-Events, the Superdome, and the Return of the Repressed in New Orleans," in The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans,...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...that continued to remind people of the awful past. Belfast remains divided into separate religious areas by the river and a barbed wire "peace line." Similarly, we visited the Red...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...the UK was subsidized in 2007 by the Arts Council to the tune of over fifty-two million pounds, compared to one and three quarter million pounds allocated for jazz, both of which boast similar audience...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...