LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...development projects that map new bastions of commerce onto existing urban footprints. Many mixed-use projects include residential neighborhoods replete with spaces targeting Atlanta's young creatives: performance venues for live music and art shows, community...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...a simple three-part statement that argues for positive changes in the academic departments or programs that house these disciplines: An end to the actions that divide creative and critical/academic voices;...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...The context of Jefferson’s remarks make it clear that the "country" he is thinking about is his own Virginia, that he is not thinking about a conflict involving outside forces...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
Mississippi Delta
...labor shortage that promoted the consolidation of farm lands, diversification of crops beyond cotton, and the mechanization of plantations. Beginning with the Dixiecrat movement of the 1948 presidential campaign, the...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...tradition but also ensured that gospel remained embedded in African American culture. That embeddedness has surfaced in a variety of cultural contexts and arenas and continues to do so: BET's...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...the center for a song, believing that this is the best vantage point from which to apprehend what makes the music culture so moving to its participants. Composing Sacred Harp's...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...often treats immigration to the South as either so transformative that it replaces local and regional historical geographies of race, place, and labor or so different from past practices that...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...and well-preserved Native American (Guale) shellring on the northwestern corner of the island gives evidence that humans have experienced Sapelo for at least 4,500 years. The arrival of the Spanish...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...have transformed its landscapes for at least 4,000 years. Its human history is similar to that of its island neighbor, St. Catherines, beginning with Native Americans (the Guale). The Guale...