Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...and treasure was something inside my house, something I could hold, like the silverware Mama kept in a leatherette case in the dining room. I was a white child of...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...inscape, or individuation, sounds so close to terror you'd confuse the two, as if the finest and the rarest blend would come with just a hint of fear or pain,...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Cherokee Chief, ca. 1866. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, Seminary Hall, Northeastern State University, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, 2008. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user Caleb...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...an intellectual and political pitfall because it can obscure the fact that criminality itself is always politically and culturally constructed. See Paul Gootenberg, "Talking About the Flow: Drugs, Borders, and...
DOIs and Altmetrics
...to take advantage of the large community of publishers and libraries who use DOIs to manage and curate digital content. Screenshot of Altmetric badge and DOI marker, June 7, 2016....
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...the NFL's Atlanta Falcons. The first, Friendship Baptist Church, was founded before the end of the Civil War and has stood at its current location since 1880. Spelman and Morehouse Colleges were...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...expeditions to me, thinking it's my job, not theirs, because I've done it so long I'm used to such nights, because old as I am I'll still do what they...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...history, Tremé: Race and Place in a New Orleans Neighborhood, blames their absence on the fact the space has been “erased,” “deterritorialized,” to use the argot of cultural geography. The...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...indignity for old or young. "Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till," Reed writes, "was murdered in nearby Mississippi on a family visit from Chicago in 1955 because he unknowingly violated a local rule...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...summer to autumn. Tree limbs refuse to stand upright, but bend inward from left and right, curving into an asymmetrical spiral of light, shadow, and texture. There is some semblance...