Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Tom Rankin, Delta Winter, Bolivar County, Mississippi, 2010. Tom Rankin is stepping down as the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University after fifteen years of service....
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...They At project," Amistad's Director of Library and Reference Services, Chris Harter, says, "have placed the Center at the forefront of efforts to document and preserve materials that chronicle the...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...States. He also gives particular attention to the role of Spanish colonial policies on manumission, self-purchase, and militia service in creating New Orleans’s unique caste of free people of color....
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...native plants from parishioners, Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church dedication service, Miami, Florida, February 1, 2015. Photo by Ana Rodriguez-Soto. Courtesy of the Archdiocese of Miami. This assessment hinges on...
Mississippi Delta
...unknown creator. Bottom, African-American tenant cabin, Armstrong Plantation, Mississippi, 1934. Photograph by unknown creator. Both photographs courtesy of Mississippi State University Libraries, Special Collections Department, University Archives, Cooperative Extension Service Photographs,...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...they still lived in public housing. "The irony of the Chicago case," writes Goetz, "is that the considerable achievements in coordinating city services were realized in public housing communities only...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...study the National Park Service commissioned on LGBTQ historic sites. I contributed a chapter on Miami that narrated existing (surviving) physical sites. This work challenged me to think very differently...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...and exclusion indelibly marked the growth of coastal capitalism, "firmly linking white privilege to public services and infrastructure improvements" (128). African Americans, who had enjoyed relatively open access to the...
Central America Protest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 25, 1984
...staged a march commemorating the assassination of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero four years earlier. Both CASC and SDCA distributed leaflets and information to people leaving church services about their respective...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...