The Change
...Gillespie house floor design, with torn and faded floral paper on walls and linoleum so thin over rotted board that the floor gave if you weighed over a hundred pounds,...
Nigger Street 1937
McIntosh Street the sign reads like the apple red but not red delicious red but red like redeye gravy on grits at Gus's or red like stoplights but...
California Creek, North Carolina
...undercut the highway over time, California Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Sign placed on the job site by the contractor, Gilbert Southern, encouraging higher quotas in an...
Mars Hill, North Carolina
New Waffle House NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill, NC, 2004. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Signage on NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill NC, 2004. Photo courtesy...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
Introduction Popular American films and literature often depict tornadoes as distinctly midwestern phenomena: a girl in Kansas is whisked away by an afternoon cyclone, a pack of storm chasers follow...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...lived before prison, with no new defenses or support against that environment. Shannon Brockman in his Foundry room, Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket, 2009. Two factors significantly help ex-inmates...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...the Alabama Department of Transportation, describes the significance of the attack near Anniston: "The incident served to strengthen the resolve for the civil rights movement."3Historical marker placed by the Theta...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...Caribbean, were part of a significant religious movement, a fact that a cursory check of the local black press would have revealed. Readers need to approach these sections of the...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...2: Gadsen discusses segregation and the Tuskegee Airmen as well as the NAACP’s efforts to desegregate the military Part 3: Gadsen explores the significance of Tuskegee as the location for...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...intimidation signifies their resistance to imperial power exercised in medicalized forms. Earlier incarnations of resistance can be found in border folk medicinal practices, suggested by the brief mention of curandero...