"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...and Foodways from the Slave Narratives (Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Press, 2009). Literary scholar David S. Shields discusses the appearance of roasted opossum on a hotel menu in "Possum in...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...this project from a Faulkner background, and those from a more technical, digital humanities background. This digital work provides the opportunity for established Faulkner scholars such as Jay Watson at...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...number of jobs more than tripling between 1980 and 2000. The crucial characteristic of Atlanta's economy is its industrial diversity, with no one sector dominating employment.2M.L Owens and M.J. Rich,...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...and mainstream humanity. A parallel invective, not entirely dissimilar from that heaped on Dalit activists, is found in a very large number of right-wing commentaries on the current president of...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...too little has changed three years later, even as CDC moves ahead with its latest—to date, largely upper echelon—reorganization.3Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "CDC Moving Forward Reorganization: A Notice...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...World in Vilas, North Carolina, frames Appalachia in ways that foreground nostalgia for an imagined simpler and remote American past (Figure 18). A closer look reveals the smartphone in the...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts & Letters, this conference's focus is on the literary arts. But its scope embraces other forms of artistic expression and includes people of...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...from an individual identifying himself as "General Gordon of the Confederate Underground." "We bombed a temple in Atlanta," intoned the voice. "This is the last empty building we will bomb...