Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...dimension of African cultures and an integral part of African peoples' day-to-day living and being. Art making then, has likely been an integral part of life-making among African people (and...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...thousands of people," commented Lundquist, and "several hundred men in the State" worked as sprayers, "who are thoroughly covered or soaked with the chemicals at the end of each day's...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...become one of the leading Appalachian writers of her generation. Her work addresses many themes in its concern with the everyday lives of West Virginians and the making of regional...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...I look forward to your comments and questions regarding this work and this presentation—because I am just beginning to branch out from a California focus! A year ago, on Wednesday...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Mississippi, Illinois, and Missouri Rivers (3). As she demonstrates in discussing the Commerce Map—a rock drawing (located about 150 miles south of present-day St. Louis) that is the oldest known...
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...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Festival in Athens, the Canadian Folk Festival, and the Alabama Folk Festival in Montgomery. These days Bryant plays mainly at home, with an occasional show in Columbus or Atlanta. To...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Church numbered among its congregants many enslaved persons. No traces of the Centenary Institute survive in today's Summerfield, other than its weathered and worn front steps, which can be just...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...for free in an easy to install form. As we proudly launch our new design today we look forward to sharing our open source journal-in-a-box distribution in the days to...