At Sun Ra's Grave
...a brash of empty veins. Now only broadcast towers lance the night, their amber pulse the city's only torches, and below, where the terminal station blazed 10,000 lights in welcome,...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...of that story. And finally it takes courageous academics regardless of race, ethnicity, or national origin to force the academy to widen its field of view in order to see;...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...and horseback. A 1924 Klan motorcade in Denver even saw the state's Grand Wizard escorted by the city's police officers.2Shawn Lay, The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...were portrayed. Duval News Company, Old Slave Market, St. Augustine, Fla., Oldest City in the United States, c. 1915, recto. Collection of the Author. From "St. Augustine's 'Slave Market': A...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...a decade in New York City, where she worked as a photo editor and ran an art gallery, Clay returned to Tallahatchie County in 1987. “Moving back. . . to...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...cityscape.10I am grateful to my friend and colleague, Professor Naïma Hachad, who helped me brainstorm during and after the exhibit and enriched this piece with her insights. We ran towards...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...employ" for the next century (9). They marketed crafts to "bolster their ethnicity" (22), pursued a "strategy" of separatism from black Mississippians in the face of Klan violence (28), and...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Cambridge University Press, 1981); Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984); Christine Stansell, City of...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...pastoral views of plantations or on cityscapes: reminders of the unacknowledged presence of the almost 2,500,000 slaves who lived and labored in the US South. These works reinscribe the presence...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...growing and transforming American city,” Simone says. “I was more interested in discovering what was not known about Atlanta and experiencing it than in reinforcing that conventional lore. Over time,...