Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...hypertextual design reinforces this visual tension between framing and what falls outside. Looking at Appalachia greets visitors with a cover image, a logo, links to information about the project, and...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...between. You pass by the famous La Concha Hotel and the Cuban San Carlos Institute. You have a conversation with the doorman in Spanish; he tells you where to get...
DOIs and Altmetrics
...stable reference for each publication. This means that we are better able to disseminate and preserve pieces in the journal, even if the URL changes. This shift also allows us...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Savannah, or New York, or Providence, or the Ohio River, or better still, on the banks of the Mississippi. —Toni Morrison1Toni Morrison, "A Bench by the Road," World Journal of...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...the public schoolchildren in twenty-one states were eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches, a benefit available only to families living in poverty or near-poverty. The report further documents that...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...filling the room almost to the ceiling. The first impression is of sharp contrasts between black and white, a statement on binaries created by the structure of slavery on which...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...of commerce between the Mississippi River and the rest of the world. This was the era of "breakbulk" cargo, when goods came in sacks, barrels, and bales. Ships were smaller...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...and largest newspapers continued to fight against the Supreme Court and the federal government. Massive resistance shut down schools in several districts between 1956 and 1959 rather than allow black...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...and this I understand She wants a freeholder and I've got no land But I could maintain her on silver and gold And as many of the fine things as...
When the Border Crossed Me
...and grow crops in their absence. We had a love of farming in common. But it hit me hard when I realized that one huge chasm between us was my...