Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...working conditions, and possibly a full-time position with a regular schedule and employment benefits, day laborers conducted their daily search for work by determining which employment strategy would most likely...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...the living exponents, and certainly still the most active, of a truly wonderful blues tradition that is unique to the southwest region of Georgia. But, unusually, not only is she...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...black intellectualism continue as ornamental, overly moralistic, never quite fully valid aspects of the industry/government/education complex that we decorously name the American University. Accommodated in ever more brightly colored, if...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...century. He began with a family tree project that quickly became a collection of family photos, which began to amass heirlooms, furniture, machinery, and local publications dating back to the...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...rich detail the emotional turmoil experienced by the grandmother-protagonist Sally. She also depicts Sally's daughter Leslie as a genuinely caring and devoted mother, though not someone who is always forthright...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Yet it is a mistake to treat southern gospel as wholly synonymous with white gospel. Nor is its cultural function exclusively or even primarily of scholarly interest for what it...
Finding Media
...and exceptions, but I’ve found this chart from Lolly Gasaway at the University of North Carolina to be especially helpful. One of the general rules is that work produced before...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...Hulan observes that “for the past seventy-five years, serious scholarly attention to early American religious folksong has overwhelmingly approached the material as music” and the relatively few studies focused on...
Work
Poem This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...Stand at The Beverly Laurel Motel" in Los Angeles, California. Her work is part of several university art curriculums in Milan, Italy and Oxford, Mississppi. Erin is currently living in...