Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...cost of housing and safer neighborhoods that the South seemed to offer.12Mary Odem, “Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigration to Atlanta,” Southern Spaces, May 19, 2006, https://southernspaces.org/2006/global-lives-local-struggles-latin-american-immigrants-atlanta; Odem and...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...worthy of in-depth cultural criticism and historical analysis. And yet, despite my admiration for their work, or perhaps because of it, these authors always left me wanting more, particularly greater...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...5, viii. In Bennett's sense, Kara Walker's creation is representative of slavery, but also of our generalized excess and hyperconsumption, in which organic and inorganic (human, animal, metal, and meteorological)...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...personal and historical connections, such as the chinaberry tree (Melia azedarach), which was a prominent feature in his childhood yard and also was, as he liked to point out, one...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Lancaster County, South Carolina. This account stresses several years of physical and mental decline and, underlying it, a temperament vulnerable to depression. This tendency is reported also in several other...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...women's hard-won emancipation, expanding political consciousness, and support by an occupying federal military force. Briefly in the postbellum years, this alternative history achieved preeminence in Charleston's local reckoning with slavery....
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...in everyday life, offers a compelling alternative to the more widely circulated photographs of brutality and violence typical of civil rights photography. Outside Looking In, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.008...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...up the C & O Canal from the capital city. After extensive field research and laboratory tests on local stone deposits, geologist David Dale Owen, brother of Congressman Robert Dale...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...America. History is the subject—personal, racial, national. The idiom is complex, drawing from Rauschenburg and Basquiat, Bearden and Lawrence, articulated in painting, assemblage, drawing, and sculpture. Like Kerry James Marshall,...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...separated along the diagonal from lighter fabrics, the resulting blocks can be arranged to form a dozen or more different visual effects. In this example, the light and dark blocks...