Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...and a long flat open expanse of Delta land that spreads out to the horizon on the right. A bright cirrus-streaked sky comprises the top third of the image, placing...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...from their groins as if they have been maimed by rape or castration. They resemble Emmett Till in the casket left open by his mother Mamie Till,17See, for instance, Devery...
Buckner Gap, North Carolina
...lines in the road’s concrete surface being cleaned prior to the highway’s opening, Buckner Gap, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...have found a dearth of successful public black protests in the South, not because they have not looked for them, but because the repercussions for African Americans who acted openly...
Substantiation
...pair has woven strips of Look Bryant spreads throughout the woods. In twenty years no one's come. He opens a shotgun on the starlings' calls each morning and they spray...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...beginning in the upper stomach then up through the chest and throat and as that need rises her mouth and nose open at the same time and the lungs explode...
Fall Creek
...had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. Published in Raising the Dead (2003). Text may vary...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...open conversation. Please include audio-video requirements in your proposal. Send your proposals via email to ecds@emory.edu by 5:00 p.m. on January 17, 2014. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any questions....
Single Centers of Creation?
...is recycled from death, yet lush with life. For me an image that bores into the center of the earth, to our origins, is equally sacred as one that opens...