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Director's foreword / Alex Nyerges -- What you know about the Dirty South? / Valerie Cassel Oliver -- a poem for black art / Fred Moten -- Landscape : the politics and poetics of dirt. Cosmic encounter / Charlie R. Braxton ; Bevery Buchanan : forms of ruination / Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Jennifer Burris, and Park MacArthur ; Quilted beats bound at the rut : a theorization of the Dirty South / Regina N. Bradley ; Plates -- Systems of thought : the vision of envisioning. Songs that are sacred and pure (for Toni Morrison) / Charlie R. Braxton ; Dreaming empire, conjuring freedom : Renée Stout, African American landscape representation, and the imperial South / Kirsten Pai Buick ; Bible Belt swag : Houston hip-hop and Black religion / Anthony B. Pinn ; Dreaming of the South in stereo : Black music's American journey / Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. ; Plates -- The Black body : repository/site/agent. Bluesosophy (for Julius Thompson) / Charlie R. Braxton ; Picturing the South : how photographers have imaged the region / Rhea L. Combs ; Changing the rules, the practice of pleasure : the linguistic possibilities of dirt / Roger Reeves ; Plates -- Epilogue. Code Black : the Dirty South / Paul D. Miller ; The Dirty South playlist ; Plates -- Artist biographies -- Contributor biographies -- Exhibition checklist and image credits.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Do You Know Alex Oreille -- MARCH -- Cannon Fodder -- There's a Sickness Outside -- Medicine's Innovation Problem -- March 11 -- The Lice -- Spring -- APRIL -- Memories of West Fourth Street -- The Law of Salus Populi -- Pandemic Inequality -- The Pandemic in Inupiaq -- A Nurse Comes to Brooklyn -- Sirenland -- The White String -- MAY -- Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters -- Leaving Yale for the Coronavirus Epicenter -- Welcome to Zoom University -- Reading The Decameron through the Lens of COVID-19 -- A Commencement Deferred -- History Is Another Word for Trauma -- The Children Know -- Prelude -- Get the Shovel -- Two Poems: Provision, The Hour between Dog and Wolf -- The Jail Crisis -- Coronavirus and the Danger of Disbelief -- Invisible Kingdoms -- JUNE -- The Trees Witness Everything -- How I Became a Prophetess -- Lives or Livelihoods -- Thucydides in Times of Trouble -- Safe -- I Can't Sleep -- Giving Up the Ghost -- The Crisis of Asylum at Trump's Border Wall -- The Dancing Drum -- Notes and Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors