A Mess of Poke
...Poke berries turning purple, Decatur, Georgia, 2011. There is a rural-urban divide, however, in the consumption of poke sallet. I wondered if this gap might begin to close with a...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...on the old cash crop. The rail network distributed cotton throughout and beyond the South and stimulated in Atlanta the growth of banks and brokerages, mills and factories. Atlanta was...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...discovered "little empirical evidence for the proposition that Appalachian culture was the product of continuing frontier isolation." See Ronald L. Lewis, "Beyond Isolation and Homogeneity: Diversity and the History of...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...announced sings open to the community], and they never sang Sacred Harp at meeting house worship services. Sings in this area differed from the mainstream in that they did not...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...ask them to talk about the storms, nor did we discourage it. As is perhaps most evident in "Trompe de l'OeIL," the student video that deals most directly with the...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford UP, 1989) includes an excellent discussion of the spiritual and philosophical dimensions of the cave's treatment in the popular imagination. His focus on the theatricality on...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
... The judgment day will come by and by. About the Author Jesse P. Karlsberg is the senior digital scholarship strategist at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. He is...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Anne Braden five times since first airing it on October 29, 2012. Filmmakers Anne Lewis (associate director, Harlan County, USA) and Mimi Pickering (Director, The Buffalo Creek Flood) worked with...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...speak the language, trying to teach us how to speak Creek?" I didn't feel inclined to disagree. Secondly, there was constant writing and erasing, the instructors' hands working at cross-purposes, as...
Anniversary
...the time of the recording of these videos, he was an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he directed the creative writing program. York's books...