Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
...examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into race relations and urban layout Part 4: Dr. McGrath discusses school desegregation, highlighting Georgia's Pupil Placement Laws and Atlanta civic organizations...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...will defeat me and my tribe. Who is he to imagine he will kill me with his songs, sacred or commonplace? Who is he to be sure that his spirits...
Excerpt from James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
From James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (a play), "Notes for Blues." (1964): The play then, for me, takes place in Plaguetown, U.S.A., now. The plague is race, the plague...
Anniversary
...skin. You're still there. And Bob Zellner, you are walking free so that when we come anger's not the only place to stand. Be with us now so we can...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....
About
...about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections. We intend our audience to be researchers and teachers, students in and out of classrooms,...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...the rhetorical situation of writing about memory and place collected in "Social Memory and Memorialization," for example, uncovers compelling differences in audience, purpose, tone, style, register, claims, structures, and arguments...
Work
Poem This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke...
Negotiating Black Identities
...of racial identities in the suburbs through interracial marriage and college attendance Part 4: Dr. Lacy discusses the relevance of Black spaces and places to middle-class suburban Blacks Part 5:...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...stories' version. The old white supremacist, Lost Cause telling of the past has died and in its place sprout multiple shoots. It is exactly this new liberal standard that Kara...