Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...in work that deals with the real and imagined spaces and places of the US South, but we also encourage submissions that model innovative digital scholarship, activism, art, and teaching...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...notion that the history of the South stands separate from that of the rest of the nation, its values disconnected from American ideals.3See, for example, Matthew D. Lassiter and Joseph...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...MFA program, while supporting cutting-edge documentary work in photography, film and video, narrative writing, community studies, and documentary radio production. Dedicated to the ideals of social and environmental justice, CDS...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...city’s geography of development from suburban to urban. The city council adopted Smart Growth policies, which encouraged higher density, environmental protections, and other New Urbanist ideals. These changes, Tretter argues,...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...like those gracing many of Charleston's historic homes, imply a Greek temple, symbolizing the culture celebrated by Euro-Americans for its democratic ideals. Ironically, these very columns recall how the forced...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...use the word "blues" to advertise her traveling act. With her husband William "Pa" Rainey, she toured extensively with a number of different traveling groups, including the famous Rabbit Foot...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...however, something unexpected happened. An African American named Brenda Ethridge stepped up to the microphone. She introduced herself as a descendant of Aunt Grace, the first slave owned by Chang...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...