Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...would all depend on what element we played for. Because there were the upper class, or elite, black people . . . and you couldn't play no low-down funky blues...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...to Virgil. What makes each new iteration of this tradition relevant and vibrant, as exemplified by the photographs in this exhibit, is the ability of artists to fuse new styles,...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
Introduction In 2003, Raymond Mohl’s description of the “latinization” of the late twentieth century US South (the “Nuevo New South”) helped set the stage for an expanding body of cross-disciplinary...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...interview with author, November 12, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. See, "ELEVATE 2015," City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, http://www.ocaatlanta.com/?programs=elevate. The crowd at LiFT Art Salon awaits the next performance, Gallery...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
..."black rebel." White supporters cheered the motorcade from front yards and waved rebel flags in support. Nearly all local African American residents stayed indoors as the motorcade roared by. Organizers...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...Ki" (The Problems of the Dalits) in a major Hindi daily published from New Delhi.2Samasyaen Daliton ki (The Problems of the Dalits), Rashtriya Sahara (New Delhi, India), 2000–2002. The public exchange that...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...and in space. Southern Spaces' forthcoming series, on "Spatial Justice," promises to expand these horizons. About the Author Ellen Griffith Spears is assistant professor in the interdisciplinary New College and...
The Place of Appalachia
...Appalachian Case (Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1978); Dwight B. Billings, "Introduction: Writing Appalachia: Old Ways, New Ways, and WVU Ways," in Culture, Class and Politics in Modern Appalachia: Essays...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...built upon hyper-speculative lending and building. (top left) Red ruts and black rubber; (top middle) Tenuous; (top right) Playing Indian; (bottom left) Developer's flag; (bottom right) Carpenter's level and sun...
Writing Appalachia
...example, to examine the concept of the American frontier in the writings of New Yorker James Fenimore Cooper as well as in the southern account of Anne Newport Royall, or...