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Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond

Southern Spaces, 2011
Joel Mann, Rebirth Brass Band, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2007. Through an examination of expressive forms, musicians, and artisans in post-Katrina New Orleans, this multi-media essay explores creolization as an approach to ethnographic work that ...
Nick Spitzer
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"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans

Southern Spaces, 2015
As an extended ethnographic account of the GRASSROOTS! performance event in the aftermath of 2012's Hurricane Isaac, this article follows the musicians involved in one corner of the New Orleans rap scene.
Holly Hobbs
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Elegy for the Native Guards

Southern Spaces, 2005
Poet Natasha Trethewey presents her "Elegy for the Native Guards," April 9, 2005, on Ship Island, Mississippi. Trethewey is the author of Domestic Work (2000) and Bellocq's Ophelia (2002). Her upcoming Native Guard will be published in 2006. Trethewey's
Natasha Trethewey
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Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

Southern Spaces, 2012
Jake Adam York examines artist Radcliffe Bailey\'s representations of African American memory and the Black Atlantic in the exhibition Medicine as Memory at Atlanta\'s High Museum of Art.
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Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby

Southern Spaces, 2014
In this review essay, Valérie Loichot visits Kara Walker\'s installation: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby.
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Mapping a New Humanism in the 1940s: Thelma Johnson Streat between Dance and Painting

Arts, 2020
Thelma Johnson Streat is perhaps best known as the first African American woman to have work acquired by the Museum of Modern Art. However, in the 1940s−1950s she inhabited multiple coinciding roles: painter, performer, choreographer, cultural ...
Abbe Schriber
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Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art

Ethnobiology Letters, 2010
Review of Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art. Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, eds. 2008. Museum for African Art, New York. Distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle. Pp.
E. N. Anderson
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Interiority, Metamorphosis, and Simone Leigh’s Hybrid Cowries

Arts
By way of an analysis of Simone Leigh’s You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been (2017), this essay argues that by hybridizing the cowrie and watermelon, Leigh creates her own natural history of these biological forms that disorders the rigid taxonomic ...
Tiffany Johnson Bidler
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Decreasing HIV transmissions to African American women through interventions for men living with HIV post-incarceration: An agent-based modeling study.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundIncarceration and HIV disproportionately impact African American communities. The mass incarceration of African American men is hypothesized to increase HIV acquisition risk for African American women.
Joëlla W Adams, Mark N Lurie, Maximilian R F King, Kathleen A Brady, Sandro Galea, Samuel R Friedman, Maria R Khan, Brandon D L Marshall   +7 more
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Habiter le monde avec des sons

Géographie et Cultures, 2010
In the history of Afro-American culture, music has always occupied a special place. Black writers, artists, philosophers and sociologists etc. have all felt obliged to pay their debt to or set their aesthetic goals based on music’s achievements.
Emmanuel Parent
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