Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...to Virgil. What makes each new iteration of this tradition relevant and vibrant, as exemplified by the photographs in this exhibit, is the ability of artists to fuse new styles,...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
..."Coffee Makes You Black" demonstrate that Kennedy's voice is both witty and insistent, challenging the viewer to reconsider perceptions of black culture, history, and art. A self-described "humble negro printer,"...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...slaves that has most accentuated and dramatized the Ohio River's function as a definitive boundary line between slavery and freedom, and it's through their stories that Salafia makes his case...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...the "anti-civil rights movement" makes three primary claims. First, that southern evangelicals played a mighty role in defending Jim Crow.4See for example, Charles Marsh, God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...makes it difficult to keep track of who is who and what "perspective" they represent. This somewhat disorienting effect left me uncertain, at first, if the editor of The Charleston...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...just one decade. In this context, as Goetz writes: "The dismantling of public housing makes little sense as housing policy" (177). By the end of the twentieth century, public housing...
Local Color
...its core texts embody. Local color fiction stresses isolation and otherness, but also makes, however uneasily, a case for the nation's ability to reconcile and accept divergent regional identities. Local...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...makes it impossible to listen to this music without wanting to tap or spin or leap or sway like a toddler getting used to her feet. The visual style also...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...this story from the "troubled ground" in which it had been buried and to restore it to public consciousness. In telling these hometown stories as history, Clegg makes the case...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...attest. Human geography makes much of the permeability of boundaries and the fluidity of all social spaces. In the antebellum South, the centers and margins of slave neighborhoods constantly shifted,...