LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...Xavier Blk and Will Edmond, two of Atlanta's hottest DJs and party promoters, discussed their business philosophy and the "creative" benefits of living as a collective. Finally, hometown R&B singer, Donnie,...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
The Best of the Martins, 2011. Gaither Gospel Series DVD cover. © Slanted Records and The Martins. For the past forty years or so, "southern gospel" has named a professional...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...works seem to have been unable to avoid using the form not only to promote their way of life but also to express their deep anxieties about it. Plantation Romances...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
Introduction James V. Catano Lush wilderness in a remote bayou and the exploratory genius of oil drilling technology; traditional ways of living and the intrusions of modern life; natural wealth...
The Shenandoah Valley
...promote railroad and coal mining throughout southwestern Virginia, Appalachia, and the Valley in the 1870s and 1880s. The beauty of the region attracted investors to build hotels and resorts,...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...the American frontier as a justificatory myth. The development of nuclear weapons represented the latest example of America fulfilling its historic destiny. The pioneering scientists of the nuclear laboratory had...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...final John Q installation takes place north of Piedmont Park at Mixx in Ansley Square. In early August 1969, Andy Warhol's latest film, Lonesome Cowboys, was screening nightly at the...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...economic opportunities in this persistently poor and distressed region. To understand what the poor are up against in Appalachia, you must understand mountaintop removal (MTR), the latest and most extreme...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...the standard for courage and constancy, would first support Hillary, then switch to Barack Obama. For Hillary, observed an NPR commentator about this latest "battle of Selma," it's "almost like...