Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...One of the most significant reports on African forms in Lowcountry religious cultures is the Georgia Writers' Project, Savannah Unit, Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes, (Spartanburg,...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...was a slow ride, and I made him hold my purse. On the way home he said We should do this again sometime though we both knew it would never happen...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
...ethnic politics in the United States, is the author of The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America (New York: New York University Press, 2012). Daniel A. Pollock, a longtime resident...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...from “Six Yellow Stanzas,” exploring legibility, estrangement, and connections to New Orleans Part 6: Alexander discusses black migration experience in her family, her use of direct address, and reads from “Georgia...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...Press of Mississippi, 1995), Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000), and One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (Chapel Hill: University...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...laws resulting in racial discrimination. The Court's decision will likely unleash a new round of widespread discrimination in voting across the nation and continues its section-by-section destruction of the law...
New Orleans Ward 10, Precinct 11, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2008
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...I set out to see the exhibit in New York I knew it would be ugly. I did not know it would also be chillingly, lyrically beautiful. And this beauty,...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...spots" that change in intensity as events occur in specific sites. At the time, this seemed very new and different and it didn't seem complicated to identify characters, events, and...