Negotiating Black Identities
Video Part 2: Dr. Lacy outlines her sources, methods, and sites of analysis in Prince George's County, MD and Fairfax County, VA Part 3: Dr. Lacy explores the construction...
The Klan Tableau
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Sea Changes in Personhood
...and filmic productions in which the swamp, or other bodies of water, act as a main agent in cultural historical agency. These include William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, George Washington Cable's...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
Interview Part 2: Morgan reads “Backwater” and discusses his history of coming to terms with his origins Part 3: Morgan reads “Heaven” and discusses the place of nostalgia in his poetry Part...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
Review The image on the front cover of New Deal Ruins reverberates prophetically. In March 1972, after only two decades of occupancy, the first of Pruitt-Igoe's thirty-three public housing towers...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
Blackbirds, Mississippi, photograph by Kathleen Robbins © 2007. See more at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery. Review The Mississippi Delta and Louisiana Bayou have long lured photographers enchanted by their wide expanses of flat...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...Orleans is frequently rendered as exceptional in the US through two intertwined narratives.6Such exceptionalist renderings go as far back to the writings of George Washington Cable and Lafcadio Hearn and...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...W. Norton, 2010). About Sandra Beasley Sandra Beasley is a poet and nonfiction writer based in Washington DC. In 2011, her third book, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...spatial relations of groups with legacies of conflict and division. In July we began our discussions with public policy advocates and congressional staffers in Washington. Most of the group's time...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...to test newly upheld federal prohibitions against segregation in interstate transportation. The CORE-sponsored rides were part of a months-long series of protests that stretched from diverse locales, including Washington, DC,...