Eskridge newspaper
Eskridge Star. Untitled. July 13, 1899. "We are opposed to mob law: Our civilization is too far advanced for such business: We live too far north for that kind of...
Jackson, Mississippi images
Jackson, Mississippi: Speeding Car, Farish Street Just a few blocks west of the State Capitol is Farish Street, at the heart of what was once Jackson's main African American business...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...who would be my father. They married, something grew, a family and a business pumping as on the main highway. In photos I’ve seen my father brooding— a face stretched...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...of business, including ". . . the leg bone of the Indian chief who was hung in 1795 and left to dry, near the old mill here in town, and...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...a lot of prints of it for my brother and the business partner. To reshoot in 2021, it was difficult because I had to find someone with patience to go...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...from the stone quarries. —Zbigniew Herbert, "Classic."1Zbigniew Herbert, Collected Poems, 1956–1968 (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 141. Thanks to Allen Tullos for suggesting this apt quote. Carol M. Highsmith, Smithsonian Institution...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...it’s also true that a significant part of my work and practice actually comes from how I grew up in my very conservative, “southern,” working-class household in Fort Myers, a...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...they didn’t get paid very much.” The SOB Band demonstrates the power, excitement, sexuality, and humor of classic Chicago blues. They were not just another act recycling familiar material to...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...it badly enough to put on quite a show" (Mitchell, 570). In the same way that drag queens perform a wide range of femininity across race, class, age, and culture,...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...US Green New Deal assert in A Planet to Win: A Left populism that mobilizes a genuinely multiracial working class is an essential step in the path to creating a...