MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...superheroes to the DC universe in 1994, Brotherman paved the way for black-authored superheroes in American popular culture. Brotherman tells the story of Antonio Valor, a public attorney who works in the imagined...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...religious landscape: an overriding desire on the part of the growing Anglo population to restrain evil as they understood it; a desire to advance civilization by way of a rugged...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...of time and place. Every lynching or near-lynching played out and was responded to in a slightly different way, depending on the circumstances, the people involved, and the local and...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...food and nourishment motivated sharecroppers, farmers, and rural working-class families on the periphery of Black life in the US to “[pave] the way for new articulations of civil rights activism.”4Smith,...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...away, yielded nothing. Not a clue. John Howard, Cemetery at Rowher, Arkansas, concentration camp, 2004. A full day after he'd gone AWOL, John Yoshida had gotten little further than a...
Geography
...Orleans— and each time we pull off the highway I see my father like this: raising his thumb to feign hitchhiking—a stranger passing through to somewhere else. 2. At...
Letter: Blues
...And Washington, and you, Love — states away. The clouds are flat. The sky is going grey. I'm fiddling with the juice jug, honey pot, White chrysanthemums that I just...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...graduate, Dowda frequently presents throughout the Atlanta metro area. Dowda's work has appeared in Oxford American, Bad at Sports, ArtsATL, BURNAWAY, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Atlanta Magazine. She has exhibited...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...come to the rescue of white congregations in ways that can excuse and blur the history. Such chroniclers have argued that southern white congregations were largely moderate and either removed...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...future is my transitioning body and the pink, white, and blue flag I fly in the driveway. The author's home in Roanoke, Virginia, 2021. Photograph by and courtesy of...