The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
Talk Radio, D.C.
...salt mackerel. The next morning my fever broke and the fish was all cooked. Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 ©...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Cover of Booker T. Washington's A New Negro for a New Century (Chicago: American Publishing House, 1900). Campney's discussion of black resistance challenges notions offered by some scholars that it...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...2012, http://www.adammandelman.net/2012/06/01/borderlands. American Energy explains the Gulf Coast through another set of geographical dilemmas: between site and situation8See Peirce Lewis, New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape (Chicago: Center for...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Brooks' classic couplet, "The lariat lynch-wish I deplored/The loveliest lynchee was our Lord."11Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock, Fall 1957," in The Bean Eaters (New...