Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...work, the large-scale landscape photography featured in Elegy asks viewers to see, and hear, the haunting presence of slavery projected against the landscape without the anchoring presence of Black bodies...
The Chesapeake Bay
...know that Paleo-Indians hunted in what is now the offshore Atlantic coast since fishermen have recently found Paleo-Indian hunting implements and the remains of extinct species. About 4,500 years ago,...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...to the gestalt of this literature within the minds of its readers. To get a sense of this perceived landscape, I have mapped the observations detailed in this work and laid them...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...Walker Evans, see William Stott, "Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and the Landscape of Disassociation," Arts Canada 31 (December 1974) and Leslie Baier, "Visions of Fascination and Despair: The Relationship Between Walker Evans...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...out of the film. Here we include a chart. This web-based format gives more freedom to readers, viewers, and listeners. They can interact with the story in different ways—choosing their...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...discourse defining the Cajun experience, a narrative colored, in part, by Lomax. In 1977, while still a master's student in folklore at Indiana University, Barry Ancelet and Beausoleil bandleader Michael...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Americans.7In his study of Asian Indian immigrants in Atlanta in the 1980s, John Fenton found that Atlanta Indians reported incomes "much higher" than the avergae ($24,993) for all Indian families...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...selfish nation in decline" (148), Freeman notes that for visitors, Oak Ridge and its nuclear weapons are examples of both the decline and possibility of national progress. Freeman not only gets...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...have been leading an initiative to build a larger memorial at the Freedom Riders site. But official reluctance to honor the Freedom Riders has often blocked action. In denying Georgia...