Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...not an American city. It was a Caribbean city. Once you recalibrate, it becomes the best governed, cleanest, most efficient, and best-educated city in the Caribbean. New Orleans is actually...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Conference: Beyond the Civil Rights movement," in Black Civil Rights Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era, ed. Ollie A. Johnson, III and Karin L. Stanford (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press,...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...of Freddie Styles, a Georgia-born African American man, John Q's first installation begins in front of a home in the Old Fourth Ward. In the early 1960s, Styles briefly belonged...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...the Confederacy to claim not just national distinctiveness but national distinction. (Inasmuch as they both analyze the transnational nature of Confederate nationalism, Paul Quigley's recent historical study, Shifting Grounds: Nationalism...
Congregation
...and paper sleeves for pennies, nickels, and dimes. What stops me is the stack of tithing envelopes. Reading my face, she must know I can't see why—even now— she tithes,...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...and clamored. A somber stop at St. Louis Cathedral, where a priest blessed the bier while those who knew Tuba Fats cried out his goodness. Starting up and out of...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Turn right on Tyler Street You are at the church. Coming From Athens: Take Highway 78 West to Monroe Exit on East Spring Street. Come into town. Take a right...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...past, present, and future can take place among collaborating institutions and organizations." Atlanta Studies is not just for those in the academic arena, but for members of the public as...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...Heavy thread work suggests layers of architectural and cultural history on a typical street corner. The featureless figure of a musician propped against a street lamp stands in as a...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...cities and towns. They are visible in Georgian-style post offices, and in huge train station murals splashed with the autumnal colors of rustic America bringing in the crop. The Great...