Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...in Southern Courts," New York, New York, 1931. Pamphlet by Joseph North. Published by International Labor Defense. Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Image...
Roadside Architecture
...at least to my eyes. The churches, for example, reflect their creators' faith in the supreme importance of their goal and give voice to the notion that spiritual concerns supersede...
When the Border Crossed Me
...films Faces of Time and Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos, and the book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World (University of Illinois Press, 2011)....
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
...and is the author of Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (2008) and editor of Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (2002)....
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
John Egerton, PDF of "Possum on Terrace," 1987. In 1985, "The Southern War Correspondents and Camp Followers Association" and "The Popham Seminar" held a joint meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, to...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
Essay Here’s for an expanding hope. —Oh-OK, “Brother,” 1982 Oh-OK, Furthermore What cover, DB Records, 1984. If you want to start an argument, just ask any 40- to 50-ish-year-old fan...
Timber, Equity, and Ethics
Video About the Author Susan Hamill is a Professor of Law at University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa and an analyst of tax law. She is the author...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...land and wealth of the mountains for their own profit.1See Ronald D. Eller, Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982). During...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...singers negotiated their associations of Sacred Harp singing with place. Lauren Bock, 196-86, Gdansk Airport, Poland, 2012. The song on page 196 in The Sacred Harp is titled "Alabama"; the...
Yard decorations, Glenwood Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, 2004