"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...Miley Cyrus' Twerking," FUSE TV, August 18, 2013, http://www.fuse.tv/2013/08/big-freedia-miley-cyrus-twerk. Two archival projects have brought further attention to New Orleans rap: the Where They At bounce exhibit by Alison Fensterstock and...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...is more comprehensive because it explicitly links the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions with the objective of fixing social problems. It proposes concrete policies to bring solutions to three fundamental...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...few years later. See "Sitton House," Pendleton, City Profile, accessed July 20, 2022, https://www.cityprofile.com/south-carolina/sitton-house.html. By 1849, the Pendleton Post Office was officially situated in the Farmers Hall building on the Green. A...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...code." Is "She" "the poet" or Paul's "ivory spouse"? Given that generational confusions-of-tongues are a central feature of much of Alexander's poetry, it could well be both. In any case,...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...they did use panethnic labels they used "Hispanic" more frequently than "Latino." A nationwide Pew Hispanic Center survey revealed similar results. 51 percent of respondents preferred to use their family's...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reconstruct Bishop and other cave guides as avatars of slave self-empowerment. While these historical figures found ways of confusing the behavioral codes of slavery in their everyday interactions with cave...
On Fair Use
...higher education. The United States Copyright Office outlines its "fair use" policy in Section 107 of Title 17 of the United States Code, enumerating "various purposes for which the reproduction...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...Beasts was filmed: "it's a place where ingenuity rules. Planks, low-lying bridges make up the walkways from house to house, so if your bridge gets knocked out, you fill the...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...because it's the only kind of fencing available as in the old days in the mountains but because it is now country chic"—had begun to invade the place she called...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...to institutions with long histories of community-building through arts activism and education. In this spirit, we hosted one of our first LiFT gatherings in the Hammonds House Museum. Founded in 1988, the Hammonds House...