Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...explicitly racial terms and masked in ostensibly race-neutral development strategies, financial practices, and property laws. Many readers will be familiar with the types of popular and official resistance and racial...
The Black Belt
...held a variety of local, state, and national political offices. With the mid-1870s however, came the restoration of white rule. Then, "for a hundred years," wrote Selma civil rights attorney...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...into the landscape of O'Connor's stories. The place is eerily quiet except for the occasional sounds from the auto sales lot p.a. system nearby on Highway 441. Once inside the...
A City Divided
...may not have occurred to whites to demand black residential segregation; after all, social codes and local and state ordinances controlled much of the interaction between whites and blacks already...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Sunday meetings the owners of the camps serve dinner and supper to all the visitors. This food is brought and prepared by the women of the camps. They take care...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...third section. Part 2: Minnie Bruce Pratt, Centreville, Alabama, 2004 Part 3: Minnie Bruce Pratt, Centreville, Alabama, 2004 About Minnie Bruce Pratt Pratt holds a bachelor´s degree from the University...
Congregation
Congregation https://vimeo.com/134849755 Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Congregation," 2010. View poem text here. National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast About Natasha Trethwey...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...southern culture. The images include romanticized moonshine runners evading the law, country singers meeting their fate in Cadillacs (the 1952 Cadillac Hank Williams died in attracts visitors in Mongomery, Alabama),...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...flatness, what is present alongside what has gone, low fertile valleys juxtaposed with the dry peaks. The opposites are coequal and mutually dependent, elemental to how we see. The last...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...still can function as racial partitions. Photography is often implicated in this demarcation of space. (top left) Fun!; (top row middle) Unsold houses amid red clay; (top right) Mimicked eaves;...