Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...the story of a lifetime," it is not the story of any one lifetime but a composite of the experiences of many young black "gay" men in the urban South....
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...loved ones as phones begin to work again have allowed everyone to breathe normally for the first time in a week. Outside the city, mandatory evacuations forced many to leave...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...more diverse audiences."4Shady, phone interview with author, November 12, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. LiFT attendee Mikey P interacts with a series of beat machines from different eras of hip...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...different "Souths," where culture, class, ideology, and the laws emerging from segregation varied by geography in practice and form. Reed came to understand that Black people of all ages had...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...book covers most of the 1700s, beginning with the settlement of the Georgia colony and concluding with the aftermath of the American Revolution. The empire of the book's title is...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...so many times by so many different hands that it is futile to look for a 'correct' definition of the region."7David E. Whisnant, Modernizing the Mountaineer: People, Power and Planning...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...were eligible for public housing in South Carolina. But eligibility and availability are two different things. And many people cannot afford housing officially designated as "affordable." In 2006 the fair...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...use the word "blues" to advertise her traveling act. With her husband William "Pa" Rainey, she toured extensively with a number of different traveling groups, including the famous Rabbit Foot...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...an Architecture of Community (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994); Congress for the New Urbanism, Charter of the New Urbanism (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000); Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, with Mike Lydon, The...