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Pokelore: How a Common Weed Leads Us to Kinship with Our Mid-River Landscape

Plein-Air Painting as Countervisual Performative Fieldwork

Perceptual Ecologies of Sound and Vision at Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing

Showing Up (for Each Other)

Storying Pinhook: Representing the Community, the Floods, and the Struggle
When They Blew the Levee is a fierce love letter to the power of community, one encoded to Black sociality, the broader American social imaginary, and the mythical power of the Mississippi River. In praxis, it is a political tool—a lyrical baseball bat—for the residents of Pinhook, Missouri to wield in a rally against the sustained structural violence of a biased justice system and racialized world.

“The Soul to See”: Toward a Hoodoo Ethnography
In his book, How Racism Takes Place, George Lipsitz (2011: 5) contends that “race is produced by space,” and that “it takes places for racism to take place.” While Lipsitz focuses primarily on the intersection of race and space in urban settings, racialized spatial practices in rural environments can be just as devastating to communities of color, if not more so.
