Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...collections such as Harlem USA, Class Pictures, or The Birmingham Project, it feels as if you are inundated by the unrelenting gaze of Bey’s subjects staring directly into the camera....
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Civil War Centennial Center, Downtown Richmond, 1962. Courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center. No other place embodied that particular spirit of 1961 quite as well as Richmond, the former...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Hagan, Jacqueline Maria. Deciding to be Legal: A Maya Community in Houston. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. Hamilton, Nora...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...“Many Souths,” invites a broad range of panels on southern working-class history, while at the same time it asks participants to examine how we have conceptualized the region: as rural...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...the Theoretical Humanities 23, no. 1 (2018): 157. This intermedial structure of text and paratext, she argues, "opens the listener to wider networks and spheres" beyond "John's relentlessly caustic and...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...Lang's Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936–75 and Tracy E. K'Meyer's Civil Rights in the Gateway South: Louisville, Kentucky, 1945–1980.2Clarence Lang, Grassroots at...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...in Congress during the last decades of the twentieth century. Home to a highly educated black middle class rooted in institutions like Howard University, DC experienced a similar urban crisis...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...well as class and color lines, I look for imagined black futures in archival holdings. In addition to my research, I work as an assistant curator for the African American...
Palomares Bajo
...found out the hard way.11Szulc, 14, 19, 21, 43, 101, 116-7, 119-23, 145. About press censorship, Szulc notes that beyond the constant US no-comment, "on certain days newspapermen were kept...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...In the book's Epilogue, Thompson writes about attending Professor James Cobb's "Understanding Southern Culture" class at the University of Georgia. After class he treats three professors and three students to...