Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...and some Euro-Americans (especially Italians) have long played the music.12Personal communication, Robert O’Meally, 2004. Early jazz had mostly European instrumentation (excepting the African-descended banjo and in some sense the use...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...the living exponents, and certainly still the most active, of a truly wonderful blues tradition that is unique to the southwest region of Georgia. But, unusually, not only is she...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Blacks and Whites in a rapidly growing city made for a volatile mix of people and sharply conflicting agendas. The size and structure of...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...Civil War Museum. Another event, planned for Thursday July 17 at Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library, will include a small exhibit of historical photos and materials from its Manuscript, Archives...
The Shenandoah Valley
...these stereotypes not only were badly mistaken but also purposefully circulated. Mountain residents grew the same crops, marketed them in the same commercial systems, and entered new local industries in...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...is gained by doing so. This is particularly perplexing since another stated goal of the collection is to consider lynching as a discursive act. Precisely because the word "lynching" has...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...and film versions of Winter’s Bone. In the earlier novel various members of the Dolly family also appear as characters, but there they conform fairly closely to comic stereotype, as...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...“fresh out of college,” the “first in her family to go,” thinks California “just might be heaven.” In preparation for her westerly journey, she “worked on losing her southern accent.”...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Washington Peter, and a family associate.)7The use of enslaved labor at the Peter family’s Seneca quarry definitively dates to as early as 1823. In that year the Federal government undertook...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...is often difficult, however, distinguishing between what is truly notable historically and that which is mere post-election chatter. Map of the Sunbelt (marked in red) One noteworthy aspect of the...