Love and Death at Second-Line
...was man-to-man — a turf war over beer sales, I'd learn later. I was amazed with how many terms for street shootings we have in New Orleans. Though I knew...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Challenge to Us All to Continue Our Quest and Pursuit of Justice. Information Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching is the last unsolved mass lynching in US History! $35,000 Reward for info...
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...
The Liminal Site
...to sit, the most liminal place in the whole liminal site. My physical pleasure—visual, auditory, and tactile—in the urban space is inseparable from my pleasure in the place from which...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...not only is meaningful but is compelling, through its use of color, design, and/or subject matter—so that the viewer is not only engaged but is drawn into the work and,...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...City in the late Twenties, were more anecdotal reinvention than anything else. It is impossible to read them without concluding that Saxon had spent an idyllic childhood on this or...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...1900. In an early 1930s interview with the ethnomusicologist John Work III, Rainey notes that she first heard blues at a tent show in a small Missouri town in 1902.21While...
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...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Jafa's daring formalism whetted my appetite for bold, ambitious scholarship in which "forms, techniques, and ideas coalesce into an indigenous or vernacular tradition while remaining opportunistically open to influence and...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
...eighteen turbines and generates a total capacity of twenty-nine megawatts, which is enough to provide power to about 3,800 homes. It is the only windfarm in the southeast United States....