Local Color
...practitioners of local color, writing out of backwoods Georgia, James River plantation Virginia, or Creole New Orleans adapted regional peculiarities of all kinds to plots that frequently hinged on one...
Red Dirt
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Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
...examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into race relations and urban layout Part 4: Dr. McGrath discusses school desegregation, highlighting Georgia's Pupil Placement Laws and Atlanta civic organizations...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...American Revolution when a handful of prescient leaders in mountain towns of what is today Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina ascertained that the long knife republic was not going to...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...and spatial patterns. On a Georgia plantation, for example, historian Erskine Clarke found one couple who lived together as husband and wife with their children under the same roof; others...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...dance styles flowing from Delaware, Georgia, South Carolina, and elsewhere. Seventeen was one of dozens of locally broadcast teen dance shows in this era. Each show featured musical performances and...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...and the Southern Underclass, 1935-1943," in Richard Godden and Martin Crawford, eds., Reading Southern Poverty Between the Wars, 1918-1939(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006), 26-30 (quote p. 30); William Stott,...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
Interview with Sandra Beasley Part 2: Jake Adam York & Sandra Beasley discuss traveling and engaging with the “culinary South,” “traditional” cuisine, and more Part 3: Jake Adam York & Sandra Beasley...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...Carver (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011). African American hikers at Niagara Falls, ca. 1905. Photograph by Hamilton Sutton Smith. Courtesy of the Museum of African American History, Boston, Massachusetts....
Southern Spaces Recommends
...Out Until Tomorrow" by Brother Theotis Taylor. This was recorded live by George Mitchell in 1976 or 1977 at the Georgia Grassroots Music Festival at the Atlanta Civic Center. And...