Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...his mind flooded with dozens of cases of FHA discrimination. For example, he observed that, since he moved to Elbert County in 1952, the number of black farmers fell from...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
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...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...Method Actors, expressed the spirit of the early Athens scene: “There’s absolute naïveté here about the possibilities about life on Earth. I don’t know why we’re so arrogant or stupid...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...to a selection of images depicting places and spaces of spiritual and vernacular importance, this section provides a useful visual introduction to the analysis that follows. Fats Domino under the...
Mississippi: State of Confession
Review The Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum mock-up from the 2 Mississippi Museums Project Fact Sheet, 2013. Mississippi says it is ready to confess some...
The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
...groups that had longer waits than their counterparts (whites, Republicans, non-urban dwellers). As reported in The New York Times, long waiting times depressed turnout in states like Florida, where residents waited an average...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...Association of Research Libraries which features attorneys and advocates involved in the recent Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case summarizing the ruling and its implications for libraries. In Florida, recently enacted...
Image Credits
...Photograph by Flickr user Ted Eytan. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. Florida panel of Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, displayed at Atlanta Pride, October 2017. Photograph by Eric Solomon. "Gay...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Dallas onwards, which treated Deep Ellum as "Harlem in Miniature," "Deep Elem Blues" has served as the emblematic song of the blues experience in Dallas (though it shares a number...