The Colonialist's Gaze
...suggested that in the on-going process of "Americanization" it might be better if the unfit inhabitants simply "died off." "Plan of Isabela," illustrated town map from Armstrong's notebooks. Image...
Making History
All I know of the Spanish-American War is what Virginia boys, kept safe at college, etched into the mortar with their pencils so that leaning against a brick wall a...
Central America Protest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 25, 1984
...Both CASC and SDCA distributed leaflets and information to people leaving church services about their respective views on American involvement in Central America. Courtesy of Duke University Archives, Durham, North Carolina....
Single Centers of Creation?
Essay Detail from Nancy Lowe, Source, Species Icons exhibit, Schatten Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009. Introduction In this sampling from ORIGIN, a collaborative exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of...
Dirty Little Story
...days of work. You would need gloves, a mask and a backhoe. This public beach seems emblematic of all that is wrong with American culture. On the one hand, you...
Mapping Souths
...and Slavery in the American Slaves States (1861; New York: Modern Library, 1984), 3. Decoding Trescot's South as (mere) battle slogan, Marx silently generates a battle slogan of his own:...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...a deliberately disruptive way." Interestingly, Gray uses this description of the genre in a book called Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism (2000) and...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Experience Researcher in social media and holds a PhD in American Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing. Her book Last Stand of the Louisiana Shrimpers is forthcoming from University of Mississippi...