Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
Cars lined up on US Route 11, waiting to enter. Family Drive-In, Stephens City, VA, 2008. Introduction 2008 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the drive-in theater. In 1932, Richard Hollingshead,...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
Introduction Typical spatial arrangement of the hollow square at the annual Sacred Harp singing at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, Fayette County, Alabama. Illustration by Jesse P. Karlsberg. Sacred Harp singing...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
Introduction The catfish didn't miss the current. They'd never known it. They lapped the pond all day like pace cars. At feeding time, they thrashed for their share of pellets....
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
Introduction I begin an exploration of the history of prejudice by looking at the process of othering—or social and political distancing—that is a central part of the history of African...
Sunset Colonies: Photographs by Diego Alejandro Waisman
The first trailer park I ever spent much time in was the Simonton Street Trailer Park, located off upper Simonton Street not far from the Southernmost Point. It was the...
Trouble the Land: Prelude to the Atlanta Movement
Editor's note: This work contains two uses of a racial slur spoken by a Black person. The transcript and audio includes the term uncensored as part of a narrative account...
Imprinting This Place: Rob Amberg's Documentary Journey
The first photograph that Rob Amberg ever made in Madison County, North Carolina shows a barn with a large ominous message painted on its side. “Get Right With God,” it...
Victoria
https://vimeo.com/1127164201 Introduction to Victoria I first met Ms. Victoria Jewelle reflected in the bathroom mirror in front of me, slowly applying layers of makeup, constructing a face. She loaded a...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Prelude: Fragments of Family This book is an essay on men’s existence in the South Asian domestic world, and on their self-contradictory articulation in that world of ideas of freedom,...
Trouble the Land: Crow and Molasses
Click for audio Crow and Molasses Vernon Jordan: You have to remember that when Atlanta desegregated its schools, you're only talking about nine students. And there was as much to-do...