Authorship in Africana Studies
...I thought, what might be discovered at the core of the art-making that Imoinda represents. It is useful to know, for example, that the interview was conducted in the context...
Genres of Southern Literature
...during the time, what we see is that the South's race-based institution of slavery was the driving force behind literary production. A southern slavocracy, sectionalist and ultimately nationalist, is what...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...I began to investigate the possibility some seven years ago, I was surprised to learn that it was perfectly legal to have a coop in Decatur. So I approached my...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...dance broadcasts secured an even greater cultural significance as economic conditions worsened. Kristine M. McCusker suggests that, with the onset of the Depression, these programs held a powerful appeal for...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...University Press, 2004) and Kay Mills, Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004). We know very little about what was aired on...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...had seen in other cities" (PK, 74). Appreciating to some extent what Atlanta has become, she bemoans what it used to be and is no longer. We learn that Kate...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...the summer of 1954 passed, it became increasingly clear that no desegregation would take place in Nashville's public schools that fall. (The city's several Catholic schools did remove their racial...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...major battles and the armies that fought them: The fact that African American slaves were bought and sold in Atlanta and were used to build earthen fortifications that encircled the...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...found in individual identity; instead he insists that we must develop an "analytics" that views power as diffuse and capillary, refusing the perhaps too-easy notion that a power over sex...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Opossum," Journal of Mammalogy 39 no. 1 (1958): 39–43. An absence of remains reveals that the opossum either did not occur or was uncommon in the Appalachian Plateau of northern...