Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...death of Charles Henry Douglass' son Peter in 1973, the theater closed. The building was eventually purchased by the city of Macon in 1978 and after an extensive renovation, the...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...our fellow citizens in the city. Our hope is that in some modest way the project will contribute to important conversations about class inequalities and race in the city. I...
City Hall sleeps, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...whose family is scattered throughout the city and its suburbs. Professor Campanella uses fleeting biographical details in his essay, adding to his geographical, statistical, and historical evidence the heavy authority...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...at Washington's historically black Howard Theater, Teenarama offered an additional opportunity to perform and promote their music while they were in the city. While performers, record companies, and music fans...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...lacks this authority. Legally and politically, it has neither the broad mandate of the nation nor the more narrow powers of state and city governments. Economically, every American region is...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...life. On the banks of the Mississippi between Coahoma and Sunflower counties, sits Bolivar County and the city of Mound Bayou. Founded in 1887 near Chickasaw burial grounds by a...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...tribute to New Orleans. In doing so, they identify Ellington's attempts at representing place, history, and culture in the city, his multi-genre approach, and his identity as a New Orleans...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...and, for some, as Harrison details towards the end of his book, between orthodox and "queer" identities. "Through southern gospel," he argues, "evangelicals develop the capacity to think and act...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...