Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...the rise of recorded music and his acknowledged influence on British and American rockers, the names of blues queens alone—Ma Rainey (billed as "Mother of the Blues" and "Songbird of...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in the public domain. A freeborn Black abolitionist from Ohio, Joshua McCarter Simpson opened his 1854 indictment of the hypocrisy...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...Experimental and Documentary Arts program. Below is the job announcement for the open director position: The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University seeks a director with proven leadership skills...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...to preserve the very idea of culture as a space of freedom and play and pleasure. And our efforts helped move the ideals we valued—a much more open and tolerant...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...and attendees drew inspiration from the museum and its standing exhibits: This event really opened our eyes to the variations of expression and experience we can have at each Art...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...a comment from a researcher that I hired to track down historical film and video of black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...tide reveals complex dendritic drainage patterns in tidal creeks, with a road, telephone wires, and power lines as human influences on these environments. 1:53 – This is Cabretta Beach, with...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...investigates objects across many mediums that, like Vicissitudes, work through or heal the effects of unritual. The oeuvre of poet-philosopher Edouard Glissant serves as the opening and the theoretical springboard...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...estimated in April 2006 that "there must be 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant workers in the region by now, and the number is going to grow."3Sam Quinones, "Migrants Find a Gold...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Black and Poor Americans records, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. SCLC argued that traditional principles and tactics of nonviolent direct action could be successfully brought to bear under any number...