Geography
...Poetry. In 2003, her second collection Bellocq's Ophelia won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. She...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Prize for his book Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985-2005. His eight other books include Elegy for the Southern Drawl a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and Transparent Gestures ,...
When the Border Crossed Me
...extensively so I can learn and teach others. My own farm is but a memory. My latest book, entitled Border Odyssey: Travels Along the U.S./Mexico Divide, is a memoir, a...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...Sacred Harp singing and specific places have long been a part of the musical form. These connections are even indexed in The Sacred Harp songbook. Composers of many Sacred Harp...
A City Divided
...and black occupancy increased, elite whites became distressed about more African American homes, which they equated with urban disorder. From 1899 to 1910, the number of households within the declared...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...reenactors were white, a number of African American reconstructed regiments, such as the Massachusetts 54th USCT, regularly participate in these events. The reenactment phenomenon has proliferated globally to include battles...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...(accessed December 7, 2009). In his book The Texture of Memory, James Young acknowledges the dynamics of memorialization by suggesting: "it may also be true that the surest engagement with...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
Welcoming Comment from Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey, Welcoming Comment, 2014. About the Speaker Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer-Prize winning poet (Native Guard, Mariner Books, 2006) and former poet laureate of...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...transatlantic slave trade, Eltis has been instrumental to this effort. Through information on the years, ships, numbers of captive Africans delivered, and embarkation and disembarkation locations obtained from Voyages, the...