A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...In the still, a dancer performs at a "sissy shakedown" at Club Vibe, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2004. From there Miller hits the ground running, providing the reader with thorough accounts...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...University, Oxford, Ohio, where her research and teaching centers upon women’s history and labor studies. She is the author of Looking South: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor (University...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...see Timothy Morton, "Blood Sugar," in Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire 1730–1830, ed. Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 87–106. Also consult anthropologist...
Roadside Architecture
...roads. I've been looking all the while and on occasion perhaps even seeing. When I think I'm seeing, I stop to make pictures. I've photographed rural landscapes, courthouse squares, agricultural...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...G-M Collection, AHC. Cherokee Ruptures and Realignments Detail of Treaty regarding Georgia's Western Lands, 1802. Courtesy of the Ad Hoc collection, Georgia Archives, University System of Georgia. From the earliest...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, 2 vols. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1974), 1:132; James Ford Rhodes, History of the...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...Koon, “Ruth Coker Burks: The Cemetery Angel,” Arkansas Times, January 8, 2015, https://arktimes.com/news/cover-stories/2015/01/08/ruth-coker-burks-the-cemetery-angel. Alongside care work and public activism, Ruth provided a final resting place for some men she cared...