Authorship in Africana Studies
...Years a Slave. In closing, I would like to share a couple of minutes of the SOTA production, one that has been very faithful to my vision. The focus on...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...a spring but sink into which trees and highway, bank and fields are sipped away to minuteness. All split on the present then merge in stretched perspective, radiant in reverse,...
Theories of Time and Space
...on Mississippi 49, one- by-one mile markers ticking off another minute of your life. Follow this to its natural conclusion—dead end at the coast, the pier at Gulfport where riggings...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...New York, and several other cities on the East Coast, and recorded ten songs: a total of just twenty-two minutes of music, what Christgau called “their tiny life” in liner...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...writing down, through a hyper-awareness of the place the researcher is temporarily occupying, the seemingly minute details of everyday life. This is important because, as Clifford Geertz—the first to practice...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...essays also include a writing component. Short videos are five to twenty-five minutes and utilize visual—as opposed to textual or rhetorical—techniques to advance a critical argument or an aesthetic perspective....
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...the figures. "At least it smells good," she says. But it only takes a few minutes to whiff the acrid stench of old sugar, a smell like that of meat...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...view the documentary in its full length of seventy-eight minutes. About the Directors Steve Bransford is the senior video producer at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and the founder...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...and much more. Despite its short 3:45-minute length, this video's content, combined with its brief narrated descriptions, can inspire an hour or more of classroom discussion of natural and human...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...