Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...from the relatively small southern and eastern communities of Tuskegee and Harlem. Such a play between similarity and difference provides the animating tension of the poem. For instance, Great-Uncle Paul's...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...the threshold of citizenship" (16), being considered, for instance, as three-fifths of a person in the 1787 US Constitution (11). She links this disaggregation to the process of creolization, which,...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...in a particular field, like historical background so that, for instance, you can make sense of nineteenth-century language patterns. What I find interesting is that digital projects by necessity require...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...as much attention as battle facts. Gone with the Wind, for instance, as a bestselling novel and blockbuster movie has shaped popular perception of the Civil War more than the...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...regional writing outside of the context of its original publication and reception.1"Regional writing" is the received critical vocabulary for the literature Hardwig treats. See, for instance, Stephanie Foote's Regional Fictions:...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
Introduction One night in the spring of 2006, I found myself on the edges of Richmond, Virginia’s Shockoe Bottom neighborhood with a group of reluctant adolescents from my church youth...
Trouble the Land: Prelude to the Atlanta Movement
Editor's note: This work contains two uses of a racial slur spoken by a Black person. The transcript and audio includes the term uncensored as part of a narrative account...
Trouble the Land: Crow and Molasses
Click for audio Crow and Molasses Vernon Jordan: You have to remember that when Atlanta desegregated its schools, you're only talking about nine students. And there was as much to-do...
Trouble the Land: Atlanta Student Movement
Click for audio Atlanta Student Movement Andrew Young: The leaders in that period were not the mayor, not the president; it was four college freshmen that started the sit-in movement,...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...we discuss it. Chamaco ([Kiddo], 2004 English translation by William Gregory) is the first installment of the trilogy. It was first published in Spanish from Ediciones Alarcos and then translated...