Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...small farming, but having been influenced by my growing knowledge of Latin American agriculture and advocacy work with Central American refugees as well, I sought to understand agriculture globally. I...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...trio of formerly enslaved cousins, Mound Bayou emerged in the Reconstruction era as a burgeoning example of what African American autonomy could become in the dissolution of slavery.1Joel Nathan Rosen,...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
Review Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 17–May 13, 2007 ARC/ Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, France, June 20–September 9, 2007 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...his 2005 Southern Spaces presentation "White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta." Post-election conversation has also focused on the continued dominance of the Republican Party in...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...way we inhabit places, an intellectual project that would, years later, change the way I looked at my hometown of Spartanburg, and possibly even change the way it looked at...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...with a token number of Black students to deflect federal scrutiny, and that increasingly professed nonracial reasons for their practices, often citing religion. Many headmasters of the “segregation academies” by...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...following the jazz giant's death in Brooklyn earlier that year. High-culture mandarins weren't bashful about voicing displeasure with the name change, insisting there were better places to celebrate “jungle music”...
Atlanta's Black Population
Maps for Figure 6, Andrew Wiese, African American Suburban Development in Atlanta Kevin Kruse, White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism Published: 29 September 2006 © 2006 Andrew Wiese...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...they haunt bronze water cannons, bronze children washed in sodium light. They rake the teeth of cut-steel pinschers, praying change from their metal tongues. One lies beneath a swayback boy...
"Aint that Something?"
...of cousins and "outlaw" uncles and family friends with wonderful names, by the way: Crater, Decent, Pickle, Cinderella, Big Jan. Dawn rarely sees her flighty mother who started "grieving out...