The Black Belt
...dialect, trying to depict the dwellers of the Black Belt as I felt and saw them.” New York, New York. Portrait of Richard Wright, poet, May 1943. Photograph by Gordon...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...was a good sport, letting the drachmas fall out of his pockets; sparing the girl who spilled punch on his shield; waving as I rode the carousel's hippogriff though it...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...been considered quaint and old-fashioned among genteel city dwellers. Images Mary Snoddy's Childhood Home In 1859 Samuel and Rosa Snoddy moved into a new home on their Jordan Creek...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Valley Singers," Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter 2, no. 3 (December 31, 2013), http://originalsacredharp.com/2013/12/31/there-are-more-singings-now-than-ever-before-hugh-mcgraw-addresses-the-harpeth-valley-singers; Karlsberg, "Folklore's Filter," 105–12. In this post we complicate these narratives, drawing on a newly augmented...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...aware of the history of slavery at the foundation of American democracy.5See Adrian Sainz, "African Slaves Found Peace in Key West," ABC News, February 6, 2016, http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=119106&page=1. Uncanny, you think,...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...the 2014 Callaloo Conference, we have invited distinguished intellectuals and artists to help us return to subjects that we, at our inaugural meeting in New Orleans in March 2008, partially...
Race
...when he traveled without his white wife to visit his siblings — now in New York, now in Harlem, USA — just as pale-skinned, as straight-haired, as blue-eyed as Paul,...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...booming new market economy on the Ohio River Valley in the 1820s and 1830s, spurred primarily, Salafia notes, by the emergence of steamboats. This rapidly expanding river trade provided new...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...stubborn resistance of black farmers and their supporters.1Pete Daniel, Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013). The...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...tropics. Underwater sculpture by Jason deCaires Taylor, Dragon Bay, Grenada, 2011. Photograph by Michael Brashier. Courtesy of Michael Brashier. Ariel's Ecology is built around an introduction, five chapters and an...