The Place of Appalachia
...book indicate otherwise. Interdependent and mutually defining economic, social, cultural, and political bonds between the urban and the rural become in many instances thicker and more complex with the accelerated...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...makes Franco's As I Lay Dying another installment in a series of unsatisfying films based on Faulkner's experimental fiction.2Faulkner himself worked in Hollywood on and off for over two decades,...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...journal The Camp Merton Chronicles in November 1995. Peel's project centered on the renovation of Atlanta's John Howell Park and a new statue to be installed in it. Titled Hope...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...Rivers, Langston Hughes Lobby, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, New York, May 22, 2011. Flickr photograph by Matt Kingston. This public art installation...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...— and in many instances shared — fellow white southerners' taboos against "social equality." They opposed lynching but were not universally in favor of federal anti-lynching legislation, and they advocated...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round program, an instant and enduring success, and, later, the Saturday night Tennessee Barn Dance, a rival of the Opry. On WROL, country music programming also flourished, mostly under...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...of the installations, something akin but not limited to the post-minimalist school of sculptural thought. I don’t have a concrete or specific school of thought surrounding what I do in...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...in which, for instance, universities are truly functioning as corporations. Universities are hiring fewer and fewer tenured professors, and, like corporations everywhere, are cutting their benefits obligations by hiring temporary...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...the rustic name that the pattern had originated among early settlers on the frontier. For instance, a writer in 1935 stated flatly that "No Colonial home was complete without one...
Emporia newspapers
...large nigger. She instantly screamed as a result of her fright. When she did so the nigger struck her in the center of the forehead with something in his hand...