The Black Belt
...dialect, trying to depict the dwellers of the Black Belt as I felt and saw them.” New York, New York. Portrait of Richard Wright, poet, May 1943. Photograph by Gordon...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...Los Angeles to New York to New Haven. Not content with just being a talented actor, Franco has spent the last few years trying to fashion himself into an arts...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...was a slow ride, and I made him hold my purse. On the way home he said We should do this again sometime though we both knew it would never happen...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...primarily through new home construction during the post war period Part 4: Dr. Wiese refers to postwar growth on Atlanta’s west side to illustrate how self-contained Black neighborhoods emerged Part 5: Dr....
Naming Each Place
...work of other black writers Part 3: Trethewey and Brown discuss writing against the New Critics Part 4: Trethewey and Brown discuss working and hanging out in New Orleans and more Part...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...the 2014 Callaloo Conference, we have invited distinguished intellectuals and artists to help us return to subjects that we, at our inaugural meeting in New Orleans in March 2008, partially...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Dr. John as his "college education," watching and listening to a master at work. In 1972, after the death of Duane Allman and prior to the death of Berry Oakley,...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...recorded by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long. I've also been listening to some music that's helping me adapt to this new world we're in: "World of Strange Design"...
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