Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...shared experience. Beginning with the successes and struggles of Austin Dabney—a Revolutionary War hero of mixed ethnicity—Jennison draws readers into the complex world of early Georgia. Like other forgotten Georgians...
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
...do Bye bye little woman now, if you call that gone Better leave your things, baby, thinking all day long Better not let my good gal catch you here Ain’t...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...Literary Revolt in the Humor of the Old Southwest," Louisiana Historical Quarterly XXXIX (1956): 143-151. Eugene Current-Garcia, "Alabama Writers in the Spirit," Alabama Review (October 1957): 243-269. Willard Thorp, "Suggs...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...Larry Legaux. Courtesy of Larry Legaux. While it is clear that the status of rap in the New Orleans public imagination is shifting, as evidenced by increased festival bookings, a...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
Introduction Botanical illustration of Cannabis sativa L. Originally published in Professor Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé's Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (Gera, Germany: 1885). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the singing schools as crude. Musicians such as Lowell Mason (1792-1872) began an ardent campaign against the singing schools and the kind of music they promoted. Mason and the "better...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...is to uplift him and tell him he matters. He invites us all to "do a better job of that."10Alex Abad-Santos, "Watch: Mahershala Ali's powerful SAG Awards speech on persecution...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...American and Caribbean Studies Program for this invitation to speak to you here at Emory University. I hope that this visit starts a larger dialogue between our two campuses regarding...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...line" (as in a straight line drawn in the air) was a term widely used to describe the shortest distance between two points, and it became part of the name...