"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...anti-racist film about lynching, walked through the school cafeteria wearing Klan robes. See: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/second-teacher-at-center-of-kkk-controversy/241731973. Representative Boyd finds in the reenactment a narrative of continuity with an emphasis on kinship bonds...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...are now many models for web and video interpretation of spatial and highway histories; see, for instance, the 2013 film, Paving the Way: The National Park-to-Park Highway, which presents the...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...stations. Spitzer was founding director of the Louisiana Folklife Program and senior folklife specialist at the Smithsonian Institution. He has produced ethnographic films, radio documentaries and CDs on traditional culture,...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
Introduction Map of Major Indian Tribes in the "South,"circa 1750 I borrow only my title from Alfred Kazin's 1942 study On Native Grounds, an influential reading of modern American prose...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Unicorn Stencil Documentary Films, 2011). Today, public housing has become a trenchant symbol of failure. By the late 1970s, low-income black people who resided disproportionately in public housing were often...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...an 8x10 wooden view camera with a tripod. I use this because of its ability to render detail and a sense of place. The 8x10 sheets of film give me...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
Review The present system of flood control in the Mississippi Valley is a compromise resulting from a long and complicated interplay among interest groups. The current solution to the problem...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...of movie film. As the viewer moves closer, the details that change from print to print become clear. At an intimate distance, the multiple Coleman’s Cafés suggest a child’s annual...
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...