Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
"Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield, recorded in Plains, Georgia, 1976. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum Records. From "Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley" by Steve Bransford. [Acoustic...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...Studies at Duke. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993); Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995); Local Heroes...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Food Power Politics, 142. Examining food access and equity shifts attention to the environmental and psychological vulnerabilities of Black bodies. Vegetable vendor leans against his work vehicle, Mound Bayou, MS,...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...white oppression—as often they were—conveying the message that the power and keys to change rested with interventions of white citizens. "Fire Bomb Watch, Mileston, Mississippi, June 1, 1964." Community center...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
...a gay bar as you're coming out, it's probably a good idea to shift to a larger venue." Randy Gue interviews Jesse R. Peel. This exchange presents Peel's conversational style...
Single Centers of Creation?
...in the Southern Appalachian mountains. Excerpt from Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, 1859: Artist's Statement It has been thought that, because of the tremendous diversity of lungless salamanders...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
..."The Restraints: Open and Hidden," Life Magazine, September 24, 1956, reproduced in Gordon Parks, 106. Parks took more than two-hundred photographs during the week he spent with the family. All...