The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...his 2005 Southern Spaces presentation "White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta." Post-election conversation has also focused on the continued dominance of the Republican Party in...
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...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...history, the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It requires no download and...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...to Chicago. This multimedia essay features two clips exploring the experiences of migrants to Chicago and the subsequent decline of the industrial opportunities that initially attracted them. Director George King...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...University of Texas at Austin, examines several episodes of epidemic disease occurring among the towns lining the Texas-Mexican border across nearly a century. He argues that these medical emergencies expose...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...turning Stonewall's rebellion into art. The Sweet Gum Head is where Atlanta earned its reputation for top-flight female impersonation. It's where Atlanta's drag came out of the closet. Before RuPaul...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...have utilized lobbying to benefit from corruption and abetment in state government and greatly profit at the direct expense of the public.5See Sturgiss, "Looting Louisiana"; Silverstein, "Dirty South"; "Looting Louisiana: A...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...North Carolina, and the University of Maine Museum of Art Photo National 2011 where she received the director’s purchase award for "Hendrie." For more information, please visit the artist's website....
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...