The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...paintings, photographs, installations, and films, in a pervasive celebration of amateurism and primitivism, and in the crazy free form dancing that erupted wherever bands played. In Athens, child’s play worked...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...people and places that foregrounds photography’s jumbling of time. In very different ways, they hold the place or person—the subject—steady so time can float free. William Christenberry, Greensboro, Hale County,...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
Brushes with War
...disappeared into the attic of a wealthy New Jersey family whose daughter gave her life in an effort to educate freed slaves on South Carolina's Sea Islands during the so-called...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...region, and the distinctive environment of the Lowcountry. In those days, black South Carolinians, enslaved or free, played little role in the state’s official past, and medical history, there and...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...coincided with struggles in Washington, Selma, and Birmingham. And as the pace of the black freedom struggle quickened, centennial activities slowed. The 35,000 visitors at Manassas in 1961 turned into...
Ellipsis
White-blossoming trees In front of the house In Sparta, Georgia, Where they together lived: Free woman of color (black, white, Cherokee), white male slaver, and their children who slept with...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...the Freedom Riders they've chased from Anniston, still smoked out and choking on the grass. So much else is gone — the grocery where the driver ran "for help," the...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
Introduction The Lower Chattahoochee River Valley region has a rich tradition of blues music, but if it weren't for the efforts of field researcher George Mitchell from 1969 until the...