The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
Introduction Mark Auslander, The white section of the Oxford City Cemetery, Oxford, Georgia, 2000. My title, "the other side of paradise," is taken from a commentary by Ms. Emogene Williams,...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...June 23, 2019. Video still by Steve Bransford. We used new video and audio recording technologies to capture elements of the experience of the hollow square. Our recording equipment included...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...the word "romantic" or "romanticism" in this essay, I am taking my definition from Michael Lowy and Robert Sayre who argue in Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity, that "Romanticism...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Linda Gordon argues that the absence of large Catholic constituencies combined with racism accounted for the pioneering roles of...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...from Washington and New York—in most cases the only daily news source they trusted.2Mary Ann Watson, The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990),:...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...and similarly split districts in surrounding Davidson County, under Superintendent J. E. Moss. In round numbers, there were about ten thousand black students and twenty thousand whites in the city...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...that it typically stays in one chord for an extended duration, occasionally goes to the four chord, but never resolves on the five chord. It is also played in an...