Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...senior, a young black woman who chewed her gum only until the sugar ran out. This in blink-and-you'll-miss-it Shaw, Mississippi, not far from where I would later sit with Ed...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...Wiese recounts how discrimination curbed the African American housing boom, leaving deep scars on the urban fabric Part 6: Dr. Wiese discusses how highway construction and urban renewal in the late...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...and Spanish colonialism. The Tremé developed around Congo Square as one of the first neighborhoods of free people of color in the United States in the late eighteenth century.1For more...
When the Border Crossed Me
...my piece of land more profitable. The disparity began to weigh on me. Thirty years later, I look back to the day the border first crossed me. That day I...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...inspired antislavery activism and proslavery, states' rights reactions (284). Vesey's dual legacy, evoking admiration and terror, was evident in Charleston over 150 years later, when a sharply divided local response...
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...