The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...makes it impossible to listen to this music without wanting to tap or spin or leap or sway like a toddler getting used to her feet. The visual style also...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...this story from the "troubled ground" in which it had been buried and to restore it to public consciousness. In telling these hometown stories as history, Clegg makes the case...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...attest. Human geography makes much of the permeability of boundaries and the fluidity of all social spaces. In the antebellum South, the centers and margins of slave neighborhoods constantly shifted,...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...challenging or disrupting them, makes participation in that culture akin to complicity. It's a debate that resonates far beyond the "cloistered world of southern gospel" (11). The ultimate power and...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...of black life in Washington, she often portrays the historical contours of this connection in overly-broad terms. Hopkinson makes reference to the rise of "bounce beat" go-go, a stripped-down version...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...for a stroll" with his grandchildren, according to the caption in the magazine, the lush greenery lining the road down which "Old Mr. Thornton" walks "makes the neighborhood look less...
Just as Sure
Water finds its own level where it settles. A fool makes decisions with heads or tails. These are things I remember my daddy would always say. You know, it's too...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...out, American Indians have not only been made separable from the South, very much including its literature; American Indian literature of the South also makes itself both separable and inseparable...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...me that sometimes the stuff that makes you the most angry is the stuff that fuels your strongest work. Elvira Pulitano: Upon receiving the invitation to attend the gathering at...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...racial equality with heritage entrepreneurship, Alabama tourism officials are acknowledging the state’s rich concentration of civil rights sites. The marking of physical space in Scottsboro makes memories tangible. Donations of...