The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...Rooting musical practices in the lives of individuals and individual creativity in broader cultural context, The Makers of the Sacred Harp is an indispensable study of the countless acts of...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
Big Ten football has received plenty of criticism in recent years, much of it well deserved. The conference clearly isn't what it used to be, and Marc Tracy recently identified...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...these were "Indian lands." The area that was to become the Ten Broeck Race Course is not in the image, but is further to the west in the area shown...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...World. Importantly, Carpentier stresses that "the extraordinary is not necessarily lovely or beautiful. It is neither beautiful or ugly; rather it is amazing because it is strange" ("Baroque" 101). But...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...more information on the Ala Wai canal, a lagoon off Waikiki that displaced wetlands used by island Natives for fishing and agriculture in Waikiki, see Sophie Cocke, "Ala Wai Canal:...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Mississippi have not succeeded in liberating themselves from the limits set by the natural world. In many places along the lower Mississippi and its tributaries—including the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta—it might have...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...as an English instructor on one-year contracts and living in a small, one-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Spartanburg. I still imagined I'd soon live elsewhere when I got the...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...identified as Creole, but, perhaps more importantly, it is a place where recovery in cultural terms can be described in the creative, transformative, and sometimes improvisatory terms of cultural creolization...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...in Helper's writings that can assist us in detecting the invisible but discernible presence of the Siamese Twins in his racial imagination. First, he was obsessed with the Chinese in...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...colleagues in our partner institutions are supportive and in many cases doing equally impressive work in the field." A Joint Project with Other Universities and Organizations AtlantaStudies.org is guided by...