Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
Review In 1971, a Walker Evans retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art inspired critic Hilton Kramer to reflect on the Evan's enduring influence: "For how many of us, I...
Letter: Blues
...each one of them. We do. The insides of my wrists still ache with you. Does the South watch over wandering ones Under different moons and different suns? I have...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...to examine an elephant. The results are well known: each grabs a different part and reports a different result. The Buddha then offers his lesson: scholars (the less-remembered subject of...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...to Civil Rights Images."8Maurice Berger, "A Radically Prosaic Approach to Civil Rights Images," Lens, New York Times, July 16, 2012, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/a-different-approach-to-civil-rights-images/. It is precisely the unexpected poetic quality of Parks's seemingly...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...times and each sequence was slightly different. In addition, I watched as several high school students played the game. They spent more time on this interactive simulation than any other...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Charles Davenport's testimony many years later in the WPA narratives offers a glimpse of what one recruiter ran up against at Aventine Plantation, on the other side of Second Creek....
Remnants of Flannery
...roots of Lincoln's antislavery crusade following his realization of this in New Orleans; and the television series The Vampire Diaries, set in Virginia and largely filmed in Georgia, among many...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...and non-tourist landscapes did not overlap, I found the separate spaces to be very different. In places that did not attract tourists, the physical environment often seemed the result of...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...with a different director for each episode. Like Ken Burns's Jazz (2000), The Blues tied itself to numerous commercial products, including a book and a compact disc series. German director...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...overburdened state governments cracked under the pressure generated by millions of newly unemployed workers, many in cities and suburbs. Businesses contracted or closed and municipal governments faced layoffs and cut...