The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
Introduction Ruth Burk’s celebrated (and contested) legacy as an AIDS caregiver and activist is represented in headlines from the Arkansas Times, the local paper that conducted much of the initial...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
How To Navigate We’ve arranged Stand & Witness as a guided tour. We recommend that you move through the exhibition according to the numbered tour stops or “hotspots.” To start...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
Introduction—Salt Creek and City Nature Sunshine City beer can at Tropicana Field, which was built over razed African American neighborhood, St. Petersburg, Florida. Photograph courtesy of Marcel Hartwig. To place...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
Review In this impressive volume edited by Cécile Vidal a collection of historians seek to recover a "marginalized" past (16) within American history. Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World...
Our Backward Revolution
On election night 2024, when the Associated Press called Pennsylvania and North Carolina for Donald Trump, I knew that he would be our next president, and I went to bed....
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
Family Forestry https://vimeo.com/126311195 Part 1: November 6, 2001: Leavell describes basic procedures involved in a timber harvest, namely selection and organization into wood types. https://vimeo.com/126311196 Part 2: March 3, 2002:...
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,...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
After the end of the Civil War, recently freed Black people endeavored to create their own communities. During Reconstruction, and with newfound access to political and economic power, Black towns...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
2025 marks fifty years since the fall of Sài Gòn and the communist takeover of Laos, Cambodia, and Việt Nam. While Vietnamese American communities commemorate this anniversary year of the...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
Introduction Filmed during the 1990s and released on PBS in 2000, Goin’ to Chicago is a sixty minute film about the largest internal movement of people in United States history—the...