Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...black children, enlargements of collectibles, which could be found at the front door of a white southern home or sugar plantation, signifying "Southern hospitality," carry bananas or food in baskets.15"Walker...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...made the doll out of nylon pantyhose. So in that year the doll and Martin’s shirt shared powerful affinities, both were articles of clothing stained with blood. Significantly, Jane uttered...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...and courtesy of Pepe Murrieta. González Melo: El teatro lo hacemos entre todos, los artistas y el público. Basta recordar el origen griego de la palabra "teatro", que significa "mirar"....
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...of legislation, for example), but in and of themselves did not necessarily signify substantial and lasting change. The simplicity of my original questions faded as the labels of victory and...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...as Oxford College of Emory University—and directly past Bethlehem Baptist Church, the county's oldest African American house of worship. For two centuries the waterway has been a significant site of...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...rooms." As his creations garnered attention, he received commissions around the city. Although not formally trained in landscape design, Gainey, through self-study and experimentation, developed a distinctive style that combined...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...a high chair and toy wheelbarrow signified objects of importance in his life. A woman named "Lize Lundy," who was fond of wearing a new bonnet to church each Sunday,...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...long way in terms of formal analysis. A significant part of the progress has involved checking and analyzing this earlier linguistic work with a large cohort of contemporary Creek speakers....
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...he does not discount the significant role Vaughn played in the modernization of the genre and industry. In fact, Vaughn had connections with Kieffer and Ruebush, having studied at their...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...low-light prints hone the conflicting experiences of fugitivity, wherein a vast, beautiful, open landscape signals exposure and vulnerability while the claustrophobic cover of tree branches means safety and protection. On...