Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...of locality and racial consciousness. For this reason, I want to very briefly introduce one of Giscombe's dream-songs, even though I will not have time today to offer a full...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...and New Jersey, as well as in Kenya, Egypt, China, England, Italy, and Russia, his photographs of Memphis, its suburbs, and the Delta are his most famous. He also worked...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...we have a protagonist who arrives in France on the day the armistice is signed and doesn't get to shoot anybody at all. Even though he is briefly involved in...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...become one of the leading Appalachian writers of her generation. Her work addresses many themes in its concern with the everyday lives of West Virginians and the making of regional...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...due to racism and the sustained threat of white supremacist violence from nearby communities. Despite these risks, Princeville's population continued to grow, and does so to this day. As an...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...his long pilgrimage out of the depression-wracked Deep South, died Monday, June 3, 2013, in Nashville from complications following a stroke. He was eighty-eight. His career-long commitment to the biblically-remembered...
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...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...Raymond's book sales had dried up. He had no other career and no "day job." Since 1984, he had lived in Benny's summer studio in Athens, and although Raymond was...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...dimension of African cultures and an integral part of African peoples' day-to-day living and being. Art making then, has likely been an integral part of life-making among African people (and...
Encountering COVID
...now when I walk down the street, it can be a beautiful day, months and months after my mom has passed and I'm having a good day and somebody who...