Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...year. I am a Georgia native and have ancestors who came from the nearby farmlands of Meriwether County and Pine Mountain. The landscape of Andalusia felt familiar to me the...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...New York University Press, 1997): 241–284. Elizabeth Anderson contributed the epilogue to this updated version. Photographer unknown, Charis Books and More, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006. During the 1970s, members of a...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...modernism," or a "vital forum of exchange and transformation for those otherwise excluded from traditional forms of power and prestige" (7). Jailhouse Rock, 1957. Promotional image featuring the film's star...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...best and I sent it to him. He said to me, “No, you can't see the house.” I said, “Well, bro, you built the cabin in a thick forest” The...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...
Cajun South Louisiana
...War Information Black-and-White Negatives. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC. The emergence of the oil and petrochemical industries in the early twentieth century promoted modernization and movement...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...for, among other things, playing local rap on New Orleans's listener-supported community radio station, WWOZ 90.7FM.14See Scott Jordan, "The Rap on WWOZ," The Gambit, August 19, 2003, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/the-rap-on-wwoz/Content?oid=1241861. Rogan was...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...landscape. He considered Virginia's Eastern Shore "decidedly Deep Southern." Its landscape, structures, and their spatial arrangements made the region more like Georgia or Tidewater Virginia than Pennsylvania or even its...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...are featured on both the Southern Spaces and MARBL blogs. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, December 14, 2006. Photograph by Brett Weinstein. Released under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license....
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...