A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...with fairness and decency." To say the least, these sentiments glossed over the war's complicated history, especially the centrality of slavery but also the war's unremitting violence, ruthless guerrilla conflict,...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...presence in El Paso, he "helped lay the foundation for Black voting rights in the South as the central plaintiff in two landmark US Supreme Court cases: Nixon v. Herndon...
Local Color
...color writers might be seen as promoting a separatist view of region through their attention to difference and unique detail, but they might also be seen as arguing an early...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...scene is a handheld Super 8 shot of young people drinking and carousing on a cliff above the river while the popular African big-band standard "Skokiaan" plays. The camera doesn't...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...increasing rates of Latin American immigration to the Atlanta metropolitan area Part 3: Transnational migrant circuits between Atlanta and localities in Mexico and Central America Part 4: Situating Chamblee and Doraville as...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...subcontinent.2I use India and South Asia interchangeably in these pages, since much of the investigation deals with areas in the northern, central, and western regions of the undivided subcontinent, before...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...modernism," or a "vital forum of exchange and transformation for those otherwise excluded from traditional forms of power and prestige" (7). Jailhouse Rock, 1957. Promotional image featuring the film's star...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...is a central theme of Ellen Griffith Spears's excellent and important book, Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town, which follows the story of Anniston from...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...way through central cities, tended to disrupt largely black areas, displacing families and disrupting communities" (112). In the wake of massive demolition of public housing, tenants initiated efforts to preserve...
Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...