The Colonialist's Gaze
Presentation Closer Reading: Three Images from the Presentation Panorama of Armstrong standing at the summit of Signal Hill. Image courtesy of Lanny Thompson, 2017. Standing at the summit of Signal...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...
Insistent Traces
...Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Born in Chatham, Virginia, Claudia Emerson is the Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia....
Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...and political disenfranchisement. Photo negative of the first federal food stamps printed in Washington, DC, April 20, 1939. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. Courtesy of Library of Congress. Three factors...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...George Washington Cable, Charles Chesnutt, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Lafcadio Hearn, Grace King, Mary Noailles Murfree, and Thomas Nelson Page, among others. His consistently incisive readings restore these writers' texts to their...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...some Latinos benefited from a “provisional whiteness” as they attended white schools, used white facilities, and enjoyed greater overall mobility in the Jim Crow era. She begins in Washington, DC,...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
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The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...