Authorship in Africana Studies
...every interest in challenging an order of figuration" that programs my own negation.11Wynter, "The Ceremony," 49. Yet, mine is not a blameless opposition. I do not naively celebrate the obvious...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...Oxford campus and remained a loyal supporter of the university as it began developing graduate and professional programs, including a School of Medicine in 1915. Woodruff understood malaria as a...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...NAACP leader Albert E. Perry, met successful resistance by armed African American defenders, many of them veterans, through "disciplined gunfire."5Robert Franklin Williams, Negroes with Guns (Detroit: Wayne State University Press,...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...of rape—Haywood Patterson, Clarence Norris, Charley Weems, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Ozzie Powell, Eugene Williams, and brothers Andrew and Roy Wright—collectively served more than one hundred and thirty years in...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...respectable families, basketball teams, fraternal organizations, and other notable African Americans. Thomas Allen Harris, director of the 2014 documentary Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...asserted Vardaman's fellow senator John Sharp Williams, Choctaws lived "an honest and simple life" (51). Later, Theodore Bilbo would also take up the Choctaw cause in Washington. The lobbying bore...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
Review In Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City journalist and educator Natalie Hopkinson uses go-go—the ultra-local style of African American popular music that has dominated...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...in this case Kernstown, and stand in a panoramic mural of its reenactment. Overhead, the sound of battle rages with shots, screams, and whinnies. The effect is sobering and depressing,...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
...health programs for people with HIV and their friends, families, and caregivers. In this interview, Dr. Peel discusses his life as a gay man in Nashville, Tennessee, his move to...
New Shades o'Death Creek
Excerpt Set in West Virginia, this excerpt from Giardina's novel of time-space travel, Fallam's Secret (2003), evokes the physical and emotional landscapes of mountaintop removal in the southern Appalachians. On...