A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
A Sleight of History: Film and Essay Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium. A short film by Sarah Melton and Marshall Houston, 2009. My fellow filmmaker Marshall Houston...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Quilting Conversation
...Museum of Art. She previously worked as an arts journalist in New York and received her PhD from the department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University,...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...oppressive food power wielded over Black farmers and their families by white capitalist elites in the Delta. The triangulation of these events forced sharecroppers and their families into structural over-dependency...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...present day writers covering MTR to get it right. Come to Central Appalachia where mountaintop removal is rampant. Talk to the local people. Hear their stories and listen to their...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
Introduction In 2003, Raymond Mohl’s description of the “latinization” of the late twentieth century US South (the “Nuevo New South”) helped set the stage for an expanding body of cross-disciplinary...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...so I'll just add a few more thoughts. I think I'm a pretty disciplined writer. I'm a former journalist (still contributing to journalism, but now as a trained historian) who...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...population. However, it extends forcefully into the countryside, to apparently non-capitalist sectors of the society, through the interventions of police, bureaucracy, modern law, and medical institutions; the influence of schools...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...the words of art historian Christopher Reed, to leave a "queer mark on the physical environment." They also map a move from figurative representation, through post-minimalist gestures, to shifting moments...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...We spend time with and listen to our children. We want to know what they think. And children are expected to pass time with elders. We try to make that...