Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...Studies at the University of Alabama, I knew that I wanted to work on Southern Spaces. As part of my first-year graduate training for the ILA in 2009, I began...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...hours later, in Jacksonville, Florida, the Jewish Community Center survived a similar bomb attack.5Southern Jewish Weekly, May 2, 1958; Richmond Afro-American, May 3, 1958. Synagogues across the South immediately intensified...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...his week in Alabama with the Thorntons, their children, and grandchildren. Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.005 by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...modernization who were in reality already established in the area. Flaherty's work recovers or depicts ways of life that were vanishing, while it exoticizes Flaherty's native "others"—in this case the...
Rising Up
Video Community Ideas Station, Excerpt from Rising Up, 2005....
1108 Dynamite Hill
...assault. Top, Original street-facing window of the Drew household at 1108 Center Street, Birmingham, Alabama. Bottom, The brick wall that now surrounds the house, Birmingham, Alabama, ca. 2020. Video stills...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Delery-Edwards describes the Lounge as a cultural space that sought to insulate patrons from homophobic violence, what Vernon would imagine in a musical number, "The World Outside These Walls."11Max Vernon,...