Roadside Architecture
...at least to my eyes. The churches, for example, reflect their creators' faith in the supreme importance of their goal and give voice to the notion that spiritual concerns supersede...
When the Border Crossed Me
...films Faces of Time and Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos, and the book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World (University of Illinois Press, 2011)....
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
...and is the author of Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (2008) and editor of Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (2002)....
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...and Refinery, Mississippi River Corridor, Louisiana, 1998 from Petrochemical America, photographs by Richard Misrach, Ecological Atlas by Kate Orff (Aperture, 2012). © Richard Misrach, courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;...
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
John Egerton, PDF of "Possum on Terrace," 1987. In 1985, "The Southern War Correspondents and Camp Followers Association" and "The Popham Seminar" held a joint meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, to...
Timber, Equity, and Ethics
Video About the Author Susan Hamill is a Professor of Law at University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa and an analyst of tax law. She is the author...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...land and wealth of the mountains for their own profit.1See Ronald D. Eller, Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982). During...
Yard decorations, Glenwood Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, 2004
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...to institutions with long histories of community-building through arts activism and education. In this spirit, we hosted one of our first LiFT gatherings in the Hammonds House Museum. Founded in 1988, the Hammonds House...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...September 11, 1961. Screenshot courtesy of Eric Solomon. Bottom, Rainbow crosswalks, corner of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2017. Photograph by Eric Solomon. Courtesy of Eric Solomon....