"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...in an area long central to the geography of what is now an international music culture with roots in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, and Texas.4On Sacred Harp's shifting geography, see...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...of darkened cars.5"Drive-in theater," Wikipedia; "Interactive Statistics," Drive-ins.com, http://www.drive-ins.com/stats.htm. The drive-in's popularity was short-lived. By the 1960s, their numbers began to decline. In the 1970s, many fell victim to suburbanization....
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...In Virginia, both of its strategy commissions were named for their prominent businessmen chairs. The strategy groups issued recommendations in written reports explaining the imperatives for segregation, the rationale for...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...from Georgia in June, the last detachment of Cherokees left the Tennessee camps in November. Images of grieving Natives stumbling westward seized the popular imagination, throwing into shadow the record...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...rapid increase in population in postwar Japan. They feared that population pressure and economic instability could once again push the nation into aggressive expansionism, possibly resulting in another war. Advancing...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...recounts the story of how he came to Mississippi: Mississippi . . . I think God put it in my path. I was in Florida picking oranges. One afternoon I...
Encountering COVID
...I'll be smart. I mean, I could be smart in Chapel Hill. Why can't I be smart in Saint Louis or New Mexico?" But what I found when I got...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...to agree on with people with whom I work intimately—and the bookstore is, we've learned, intimate work—is the basic underlying frame/purpose/direction/focus of values. My focus is clear to me. I...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...Problem in Social Life (1908). Image is in public domain. A brief historical framing shapes how I think of the generative and troubling dimensions of digital square spaces in contemporary...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...sent to a federal prison in Georgia in the spring of 1958, Kasper was usually in Tennessee but only rarely in custody. As a freelance provocateur, his services were in...