Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...and he is co-editor of the book Public Folklore (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992). With the exception of the Q & A session, the video of Spitzer's lecture was made...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
...gang. I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes. "Moody…" it was little Gene again interrupting his singing. "Moody, we're gonna git things straight in Washington, huh?" I...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...1920 Ku Klux Klan rally at the Washington Monument, and engravings of the 1861 bombardment of Fort Sumter, the latter selected from the archives of the Gibbes Museum. The two...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
...to the proposed mammy memorial in Washington DC, and the mammy figure within Lost Cause discourse. About Kimberly Wallace-Sanders Kimberly Wallace-Sanders is Associate Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...in Washington in 2009. That year, Steidl, a German publisher known for its meticulously printed art photography books, began publishing Eggleston's images, including the multiple volume works Chrome (2011) and...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...symposium will be held April 4, 2014 at Georgia State University and will feature presentations by, among others, Clarence Stone, Research Professor at George Washington University and author of Regime...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. A New Nature: A Review by Ellen Griffith Spears Cypress Swamp, Alligator Bayou, Louisiana, 1998. Photograph by Richard Misrach. Courtesy of...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...racial integration in the public schools, Washington, DC, 1955. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117797. Gadsden is quite fearless in his defense of civil rights liberalism. He knows...
Negotiating Black Identities
Video Part 2: Dr. Lacy outlines her sources, methods, and sites of analysis in Prince George's County, MD and Fairfax County, VA Part 3: Dr. Lacy explores the construction...
The Klan Tableau
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