Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Though the orthography of some of the names was different from current Ghanaian names, the differences were slight, and actually served to recall names I was familiar with, and elicited...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...my extensive collection. This accompanying text offers some thoughts about the significance of these shrines. These handmade memorials were erected to honor loved ones who died near or on a...
Naming Each Place
...work of other black writers Part 3: Trethewey and Brown discuss writing against the New Critics Part 4: Trethewey and Brown discuss working and hanging out in New Orleans and more Part...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...a dirt road through a cane field, terminating in a ditch.2Richard Misrach and Kate Orff, Petrochemical America (New York: Aperture Foundation, 2012), Plate 20, page 50. Patrick Clair, the director...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...decreases as neighborhood diversity increases, ultimately creating "racial differences in housing prices" and decreasing property values in diverse neighborhoods.50Dawkins, "Recent Evidence on the Continuing Causes of Black-White Residential Segregation." David...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...in this short documentary by the 1976 performance by The Strange Creek Singers—featuring American musicians Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard, Mike Seeger, Tracy Schwarz, and Lamar Grier—in the Onllwyn Miners' Welfare...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...a part of a much more critical national discussion than the one about what Armond White did or didn't say. Released in the wake of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...years with the disappearance of fears of a "timber famine," and the divestiture of vast acreages by forest products companies and their acquisition by investment trusts that are not focused...