Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...certain reverence. In addition to highlighting the power of the violence that resulted in the series of fires the model church commemorates, Kennedy's sculpture emphasizes the imminent power of the...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...adds its words and images to the growing body of work examining post-Katrina dynamics of music, race, and representation. Authors Lewis Watts, a photographer and professor of art at the...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...for Culture and Learning is filing preliminary paperwork to have the building added to the National Register of Historic Places, and the Bolivar County Board of Supervisors renamed the nearby...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...is yet no commonly embraceable interracial narrative, one that would also address the acts and consequences of Native American genocide. South Africa envisions itself as a "rainbow nation," and people...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...is an indigenous Haitian religion, closely related to West African Vodun, that draws from multiple West African religions, in addition to Roman Catholicism, European mysticism, and freemasonery. Most practitioners of...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...the Parkway," Driving Through Time: the Digital Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, accessed March 20, 2012, http://docsouth.unc.edu/blueridgeparkway/about/about_parkway/parkway/. Driving Through Time: the Digital Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, a...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...deeply and thoroughly committed Christian" and added, "I admire him for his humor, his humanity and his faith." Tom Rankin, Will Campbell at work in his cabin, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee,...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...South, 2010. Troubled Ground is an excellent addition to this subgenre. Beautifully narrated, it is rich in detail and nuance, while also attentive to the larger context surrounding the story....