Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...twenty years local groups in several US cities have conducted African ancestral remembrance ceremonies marking Middle Passage sites.3These cities include New York, New York, New Orleans, Louisiana, Hampton, Virginia, Oakland,...
When the Border Crossed Me
...already known that Mexican people, men mostly, had started coming to central North Carolina. I knew many of them processed hogs or poultry, and that others worked on dairy or...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...Depot Street, and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems, recently issued by Pitt Poetry Series. Pratt's latest book, The Dirt She Ate is described by the New York...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Altidor. Photo by Jerry Berndt. Courtesy of New York University Press. Crossing the Water and Keeing the Faith opens with a vivid description of Alex Jean Altidor's prominent mural at...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...dear to the author and his generation, namely: the complex and contradictory ways in which homosexuality, sex, and migration from the countryside to the capital becomes means of survival in...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...the 2014 Callaloo Conference, we have invited distinguished intellectuals and artists to help us return to subjects that we, at our inaugural meeting in New Orleans in March 2008, partially...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...“It is now, as it once was, a relatively healthy place.” Six centuries ago, well before the Columbian Exchange began, small bands of indigenous inhabitants enjoyed the bounty of the...
Race
...when he traveled without his white wife to visit his siblings — now in New York, now in Harlem, USA — just as pale-skinned, as straight-haired, as blue-eyed as Paul,...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...the boundaries between academic disciplines and between this scholarship and accounts written by collectors and music fans. He begins with the simple yet profound idea that people's aural worlds in...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...in a multi-media environment that engaged artists, activists, and academics in dialogue about innovative Atlanta projects.2 "The South Got Something to Say" refers to Andree 3000's acceptance speech at the 1995 Source Awards. "Outkast winning Best New...