A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...the story," the African American artist Kara Walker has said about her art. "You keep creating a monster that swallows you." In a mid-career retrospective currently on tour, Walker's subject...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...border state, Kentucky had relatively high rates of racial violence, especially in western and central Kentucky, where African Americans were more highly concentrated than in the eastern counties, and where...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...engaging in rabid pro-lynching race-baiting to stamp down the cross-racial alliances created by the Fusionists in North Carolina, the coalition between the Republican and Populists Parties that in previous elections...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...racist or a Republican. The currency remains DIY culture, and while you can buy other people's creativity and aesthetic sensibility, nothing is as cool as cultivating your own. While the...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...Republicans who loved his promise to "bring back coal." But they recognize too that there has been no support for the strike coming from the right, no GOP politicians standing...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...to his father, Charles Teney, to complete the manumission process in 1827, freeing his daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. Maryland Republican, March 26, 1814, 3. The article also ran in the April...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...of equality . . . not only did not include African Americans; it also depended on them" (199). With blacks consigned to their paternalistic place and working-class whites thoroughly despised,...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...that the ideas of bioregionalism were central to the community process in Port Townsend: bioregions are areas that share similar topography, plant and animal life, and human culture; these regions...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Rebuilding the Land of Dreams Video Part 2: Spitzer discusses “The Basin Street Blues” and prominent representations of New Orleanians in the realms of work and play Part 3: Spitzer discusses how...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Louisiana plants from corporate offices, out to central research and development facilities, off to California refineries, back again to take the helm of a plant somewhere else along the river;...