Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...granddaughters walk playfully ahead on a sunny, tree-lined neighborhood street. A middle-aged man in glasses helps a girl with puff sleeves and a brightly patterned dress up to a drinking...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...Linda Hopper, and David Pierce opened for Michael Stipe, lead singer for the then-new and not-very-well-known band R.E.M., at the 40 Watt Club. Michael performed solo that night, accompanied by...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...covered in black glitter. On a wall nearby, a conch shell hangs, repeating a recording of waves. The bust’s mouth is open, as if about to breathe or shout, an...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...the sting and shiver of revulsion with the savor of the earth and sun, of this once, not returning, sung for this one ear, on this one tongue. Backwater I...
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...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...of its sins. Its new complex of Mississippi history museums, set to open in 2017, will prominently feature the Magnolia State's ferocious resistance to the civil rights movement. A peculiar...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...work-in-progress that would benefit from open conversation. Please include audio-video requirements in your proposal. Please send proposal via email to disc@emory.edu by 5pm on February 15. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...of what that meant. I was taken with the romantic idea of wizened faces, old women in doorways, men plowing into the sunsets, hog butchering in the misty morning light....
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...War. Its opening scene is also revolutionary in a gendered way: it shows us the remarkable widow, Mrs. Eveleigh, taking on a British naval officer in his cabin in order...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...southern culture. The images include romanticized moonshine runners evading the law, country singers meeting their fate in Cadillacs (the 1952 Cadillac Hank Williams died in attracts visitors in Mongomery, Alabama),...