Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...among whites who helped elect Obama and who make up much of the "creative class" flocking to previously abandoned inner-city spaces. The change in DC's fortunes dispersed go-go from the...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...ten thousand works that comprise the collection of the Gibbes Museum of Art, largely society portraits, landscapes, and miniatures. Interspersed among the white boxes are forty black ones. These signify...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...NOLA Hip Hop Archive logo, 2012. Image courtesy of Holly Hobbs. The NOLA Hiphop Archive, which I founded in 2012, began as an effort to collect, document, and make publicly...
Negotiating Black Identities
...Prof. Lacy's book, Negotiating Black Identities (forthcoming from the University of California Press), examines how the Black middle class defines itself in relation to Whites, to the middle class, and...
Place, Time, and Memory
Place, Time, and Memory Part 2: Works that reveal the passage of time and nature upon buildings and landscapes Part 3: Origins and intentions ofChristenberry's “Klan Tableau,” the creation of “Dream Buildings,”...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...sits atop an anchor between two casks pouring forth streams of water. The casks are marked "Mississippi" and "ombech," respectively, signifying the Mississippi River and the Tombechbee River, an antiquated...
Darkly
...first appeared in The Southern Review and will appear in Persons Unknown (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010, forthcoming). Published: 15 April 2010 © 2010 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Anniversary
...water of our bodies, the water in our lungs, which knows these waves, however long, however low. So we come again, each of us a wake returning to comfort the...
Consolation
...a tasteless laugh before turning north along the L&N, if we could take some comfort in the eight humming cylinders that will pull us to 100 before they'll notice, if...
Laurel River, North Carolina
...over the Laurel River. This pour started about 3A.M. in an effort to keep the temperature of the concrete low so as not to cure too fast, Laurel River, NC,...