Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Atlanta to Piedmont Park on June 27, 1971. Linked still shot from footage of first Atlanta pride march, Atlanta, Georgia, June 27, 1971. Video housed in The Walter J. Brown...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...Rough Country, in the spirit of Wuthnow's earlier work, is at its best when it takes the risk of linking social theories to empirical evidence. Wuthnow manages to avoid the...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...Removal are far-reaching: to remove entire cultures from their home places is to remove and forever change many different though overlapping national literatures. Today, the majority of Native writers affiliated...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...musicians performed various "racialized sounds," songs and styles understood, often wrongly, as originating among either blacks or whites. In this way of thinking, minstrelsy and spirituals were black sounds, string...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...it had begun, with a consideration of the meaning and effects of Grant's having changed his name. Stein's "Grant" begins: Grant in his very early life was under obligation to...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of Fine Arts, Gift of Mrs. Alfred duPont, by exchange. Image © Dawoud Bey. Our local historian tour guide took us down the river path while detailing the experiences of...
A City Divided
...Atlanta, 1890–1930," PhD Dissertation, Emory University, 1974. George F. Cram, Layout of Atlanta's Ward System (Fourth Ward in blue), 1874. Discomfited by an influx of rental housing and change in...
Residues of Border Control
...made. –Sophie Gee, Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth Century Imagination, p. 17 The photographs are a means of making “real” (or “more real”) matters that the privileged or the...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...and behaviorally indistinguishable blur with whoever may have been (Black) Creoles."8Reed, 103. Throughout The South, Reed investigates continuities and changes in racism and race relations that took place as he...