Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 113. The trail is covered in fallen leaves and enshrouded by the endless overhang of trees transitioning from late...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond." This series will examine how music and music-making relate to specific geographies—real or imagined—in or related to the US South...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...(9). But why translate an interactive web-based project to book form? How does this monograph serve the broad agenda of the HyperCities Earth project? As Adam Kirsch recently noted, "incentives...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...European styles of realism, Biggers's later work began to incorporate more stylized and symbolic elements drawn from African traditions, creating a hybrid style of realistic and abstract forms. Biggers also...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...cases (26 deaths) of the West Nile virus disease in humans in 43 states so far this year. This number represents the highest total in late August since the CDC...
A City Divided
...class. Blacks and whites, business owners and laborers lived in close proximity in the late 1800s, often on the same block. If the home-owning whites who occupied the distinguished homes...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...only inventoried and appraised household furnishings, but occasionally indicated the location of items within the house. The late-nineteenth-century inventory of the estate of Harriet Evins of Spartanburg County is particularly...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...