Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...cotton prices, Davis Bend failed, and its residents relocated to the Mississippi Delta bottomlands to found Mound Bayou in 1887. The town earned regional notoriety for its numerous Black owned...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...the Mississippi Delta. It is the kind of road local people drive to reach Memphis or Clarksdale or walk to reach churches and stores and the gravel lanes that lead...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...manner to healing the loss and suffering that this great catastrophe entailed. Since I had been photographing in the state of Mississippi for over twelve years (mostly in the Delta...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...on the Local and National Economies," in Perspectives on the Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: The Once and Future Delta, eds. J.W. Day, G.P. Kemp, A.M. Freeman, and D. P. Muth (New York: Springer,...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...who largely avoided Jimmy's room and failed to convince his mother (over the phone) to come to visit her dying son, Ruth returned to Jimmy's room. And it was as...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...the United States, they also maintained important links with family and community members back in Guatemala. They communicated with parents, wives, children, and siblings through phone and audio- and video-taped...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...
Encountering COVID
...phone call. I had noticed at the funeral that my friend's best friend was not there. Well, so I got the call from another friend who was at the funeral....
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...cameras into a series of 360-degree videos.3Janko Roettgers, "Google Is Shutting Down Its Jump VR Video Program," Variety (blog), May 18, 2019, https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/google-jump-shutting-down-1203219306/. We used the Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993), Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (University Press of Mississippi, 1995), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible...