A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 and the forthcoming Rebel, Rebel: Why We Love Outsiders and the Effects of This Romance on Postwar American Culture and Politics. Her...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...of $7.67, but they were also charged a weekly fee of between six and eleven dollars for their uniforms, effectively lowering their wages beneath the minimum. Organized labor leaders and activists...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...in the competition. A joint investigation by National Public Radio and the Center for Public Integrity released in two parts (part one yesterday and part two today) this week suggests...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...southern gospel. Their gorgeous cover of Hinton’s “Everybody Needs Love” recreates the elements of church, beginning with the elegant opening, “There are moonbeams we can dream on, when our working...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...the construction of the Emory College Chapel. The Godfrey monument is carved in the form of an open Bible. Israel's grandson, J. P Godfrey, Jr., remarked, Mark Auslander, Israel Godfrey...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...usually called "hiphop" is a complex musical form that is boundary blurring and genre bending, often incorporating elements from or working in conjunction with the dominant New Orleans music genres...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...explicit commentary than most of the photographs selected for his photo essay, indicating his intention to elicit empathy over outrage. However powerful Parks's empathetic portrayals seem today, Berger cites recent...
Besieged Terrain
...Blue Ridge is the most easterly part of the range, with mountains that average three thousand feet in elevation, but many can exceed six thousand feet. Clingman's Dome in the...
Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies
Today Southern Spaces published Edward A. Hatfield's essay "A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate," which surveys the challenges of transportation planning in the Atlanta metro region...