Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...uncle, the photographer shoots at an angle that minimizes this statement of deference and places both men in the rough center of the image along a low horizontal line. Jasper...
A City Divided
...may not have occurred to whites to demand black residential segregation; after all, social codes and local and state ordinances controlled much of the interaction between whites and blacks already...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...and political landscape. The film weaves together personal stories with archival footage, photographs, and a soundtrack featuring blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel music—much of it recorded specifically for Goin'...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...Songs typically provide each part (bass, tenor, alto, treble) with a good musical line to sing. The physical space of Sacred Harp singing is arranged so that the center of...
Good-Bye to All That?
...their voting forms, since they often shared a common facial expression: anger. To paraphrase the oft-quoted line from the 1976 film Network, they were mad as hell and they weren't...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...to track along gender and racial lines in the U.S. Eileen Patten, "Racial, gender wage gap persists in U.S. despite some progress," Pew Research Center, July 1, 2016, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/01/racial-gender-wage-gaps-persist-in-u-s-despite-some-progress/. Though...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...those of us who work in the educational system are like all the other workers of the world— including having the product of our labor, in this case our intellectual...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...consisted mainly of programs to increase affordable loans and emergency grants. But it also included a radical proposal for two rehabilitation housing schemes.45Will Alexander to Eleanor Roosevelt, November 29, 1939,...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
...Phillips' use of autobiography and family history, investigation of the natural world, and the legacy of white supremacy in Forsyth County. Part 2: Phillips discusses “Brass Knuckles,” ambivalences of place...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...historical period marked by economic stagnation, political scandal, and the emerging cultural power of previously marginalized social groups. By linking the local music scene of Austin, Texas, to regional and...