Birdhouses
...photographs with a Holga, a "toy" camera that some serious photographers, in this age of digital refinement, appreciate for the imprecision and unpredictability of its simple plastic lens. Light leaks...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...perceived lynching as a staged performance, a "melodrama" in which white righteousness triumphed over black villainy. That Potter was lynched in an opera house may appear to be an unfortunate...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
..."Merciful God!" Jane Johns's life history appears to be inseparable from Indian attacks. And even though this inseparability is presented as regrettable and even horrifying, it also fails to clarify...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...thunderous applause erupted in the room. An expectant hush fell across the auditorium as the Reverend Tim Kesicki, a Jesuit priest and president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...Norton, 1999), 45; Boyd, Wrapped in Rainbows, 324. Hurston's approach to this whole operation was always distinct, always bent on both reproducing precious sounds through her own performance practices and...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...120mm film. What I liked most about the Holga was its less-than-automatic approach to winding through the frames. With a half turn, one could capture images on top of each...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...demographics occurring in the midst of international tensions exacerbated racist fears and help to explain why approximately 20 percent of the documented lynchings of Mexicans in the United States occurred...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...tribute to New Orleans. In doing so, they identify Ellington's attempts at representing place, history, and culture in the city, his multi-genre approach, and his identity as a New Orleans...
Birth Right
...Statistical Profile. Chicago, IL. A 2009 report by the Health Resources and Services Administration found that "approximately 888,000 people, or 19 percent of Alabama's population, cannot access a primary care...
Sweep
...for Albert Dotson, Myles Hammond, the quick tackle of our football team, For Don Appleton, the slow, redheaded one. By the time the rack is exhausted, I'm thinking if I...