Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
Interview Photographer unknown, Tuskegee Airmen gathered at a U.S. base after a mission in the Mediterranean theater, February 1944. Courtesy of the United States National Archives and Records Administration. Part...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
Introduction The soil in the Mississippi Delta has everything a planter needs. Rooted in shallow soils, elm, cottonwood, and pecan trees line the hilly landscapes of eastern and southern Mississippi....
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...currents of American literary history. He also makes local color available to our current critical moment, with its keen interest in transnationalism, global networks, and critical regional studies. In order...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...or Black faces. Bey’s most recent work allows us to recontextualize nature photography by eschewing the innocence of the pastoral scene in order to understand how the bodies of the...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...see Timothy Morton, "Blood Sugar," in Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire 1730–1830, ed. Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 87–106. Also consult anthropologist...