Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...and Spanish colonialism. The Tremé developed around Congo Square as one of the first neighborhoods of free people of color in the United States in the late eighteenth century.1For more...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...from work and shopping to show their economic impact, but were unable to stop the Georgia legislature from passing a bill to curtail government benefits to illegal immigrants. Organizers in...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...ironic thing: this happened several months ago, and the house still sits there empty." —An anonymous resident. Names have been changed. John Howard, Street's end, Henry County, Georgia, November 2009....
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...be accepted, or at least tolerated. Atlanta Gay Rights Alliance and others leading the Pride parade, Atlanta, Georgia, June 27, 1977. Atlanta-Journal Constitution courtesy of Georgia State University Library. Even...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...most pronounced dividing line between North and South, and between freedom and slavery. It was, in fact, the nation's only physical boundary separating free from slave states. Matthew Salafia constructs...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...in a mode promoting social justice and change for all LGBTQ+ people. My wrist might not be ‘stiff’ in the way my dad intended, but I think my artistic mission...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Chesnutt and Murfree as a black man and a white woman. (Chesnutt, a light skinned African American, was often assumed to be a white writer. Murfree published her early fiction...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...new memories based on Atlanta's LGBTQ past. Watch video of Memory Flash courtesy of the G Channel. Map of John Q discursive memorial sites, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010. Printable version. Click...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
Introduction Map marking Walton County, Georgia For the past half decade I have been fascinated and puzzled by an extraordinary annual event, a reenactment each late July of the horrific...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...life in a motor vehicle crash or accident. One commemorates the loss of a beloved pet. Tom Zarilli, Wilting plush toys, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006. These memorials remind us of the...