LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...is central to his vision for the gallery’s mission: "I enjoy the fact that Gallery 72 is in the old AJC building, because I appreciate the convergence of literature, journalism, and the visual. We...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Colorado University, and has just (1970) completed a year at Central State College, Edmond, Oklahoma, where she researched and prepared this article on the old Thlewarle Indian Baptist Church. Video...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...a lament (215). By examining networks that included colonists from Spain, France, and England as well as American Indians and enslaved Africans, she excavates an "early South" characterized by messiness,...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band
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The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...imperial medical intervention. A syndicate-owned cotton plantation in Mapimi, Mexico, had recruited over one hundred African American sharecroppers from Alabama to become "colonists," and relocate to Mexico to provide labor...
The Civil Rights Archive
Video Part 2: Dr. Patton explains the layout of Trenholm State's Civil Rights Archive and addresses obstacles she encountered...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...his compatriots took up arms against the United States in order to preserve a society based on slave labor and white supremacy. Stephanie Batiste-Bentham, an African American interpreter who worked...