Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...already been on the subway system in Manhattan) had an unerring sense of direction. Faulkner never denied being southern, and he was among the first to acknowledge the existence of...
Frank Willis
...friend Jennifer said so, never went to the Jefferson Memorial, climbed the stone rhino at the Smithsonian, cursed tourists, took exquisite phone messages for my father, a race man, who...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...response, we have been struck in viewing and re-viewing the film by the highly effective ways that the filmmakers and performers have found of enacting a range of painful and...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a motley brotherhood of Campbellites on good-deed missions in the southern outback, remembered those occasions and other forays with Campbell as "some of my best days on the road." "Will...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...that states’ rights rather than slavery led to war—and younger people are more inclined than their elders to think this way, contradicting all that their textbooks tell them. Secession balls,...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...History of Prejudice is to explore some of the circumstances and ways in which the matter of prejudice—"visible" and "invisible"—has shaped the history of African Americans and Dalits (or ex-Untouchables),...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...a simple headquarters of wooden frame buildings and one highly localized disease endemic to the Lowland South: malaria. Mosquito collection, Emory University Field Station on Ichauway Plantation, Baker County, Georgia,...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...on Highway 441, four miles outside of town. Visitors must traverse a four-lane highway of sprawl to reach the entrance to the farm across the road from the Comfort Inn....
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...