African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
Deep Ellum Blues
...brought hardcore to Deep Ellum before almost any other clubs opened in the neighborhood.8See Campagna's website http://www.franksart.net/. Things were informal at Studio D. I remember a performance of the Dead Kennedys...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...Jenkins, "The Empathy of 'S-Town' Doesn't Extend to Black People," BuzzFeed News, April 21, 2017, https://www.buzzfeed.com/wesleyjenkins/the-empathy-of-s-town-doesnt-extend-to-black-people?utm_term=.fmJA3Xxxe#.jtpwXLBBz; Maaza Mengiste, "How 'S-Town' Fails Black Listeners," Rolling Stone, April 13, 2017, https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/how-s-town-fails-black-listeners-w476524. He...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...is, tellingly, from an unidentified photographer. "Women Resisting Arrest, Birmingham, Alabama, April 14, 1963" (96 and book cover) offers the opposite view of the black activist as victim of white...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...on these vulnerable bodies. This manifested as a hyper-focus on the enslaved body as a site/sight of physical domination under the various machinations of white terror. This representation of Black...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...artists and writers? How have diverse forms of media carried, shaped, and spread political ideas and religious beliefs related to Covid? What are representative symbols and sites of this pandemic...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...employment uncertainty, but the opposite was true. With over 150 shipping companies operating during the midcentury heyday of breakbulk cargo, work was plentiful. The population of New Orleans was at...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...North Carolina, and the University of Maine Museum of Art Photo National 2011 where she received the director’s purchase award for "Hendrie." For more information, please visit the artist's website....
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...grateful that he shared some of these with us and that, through our documentary, we now share this with others. Visit The Well-Placed Weed's website for more information and to...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...her grandmother: a matriarch of exquisite manners, deep personal virtue, and religious piety. This envisioning makes all the more pointed Jacobs’s intention when she treats the way in which she...