Residues of Border Control
...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...impetus as an explicitly abolitionist form, like Stowe's novel (indeed the narratives were an important source for her book's rendering of slave life). The fugitive or freed slaves, writing first-hand...
California Creek, North Carolina
...I-26 West, near mile 7, California Creek, NC 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. "I really can't comprehend the road or what it might look like years from now. I've...
Putting up Beans
...likely Bull Durham and Drum. Full flavor sticks hung all through the entire shingle barn, above my head where I set gas to boil beans and waited outside underneath the...
Scarecrow
...cling to your journey — A long walk on yellow brick, two taps From a wizard's wand. I like to think Of these cornrows as a kind of maze, Imagine...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...made a quilt, unlike any of the others in this collection, from nine identical red bandanna handkerchiefs. The printed handkerchief with its bright color and the agreeable design evokes the...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...tribe is strong behind our drums and sliced trees. We are strong against these whites with sticks like dirty breath, these silly children snatching toys. They do not see me....
At Liberty (1964)
Louis Allen, 31 January 1964, Liberty, Mississippi The morning train is turning like a compass needle now the night has folded all its schedules in the stands of pine...
Prayer of the Backhanded
...my forgetting The love of a hand Hungry for reflex, a hand that took No thought of its target Like hail from a blind sky, Involuntary, fast, but brutal In...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...likewise has the potential to introduce such music to new people, and to bring practitioners of different musical styles together. This certainly happened in my case. Ann McCleary, Members of...