Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...'em no more.'" George Daniel Fred Fussell writes in "'Cowboy' George Daniel: Blues Man from Creek Stand": "George Daniel was born in Macon County, Alabama, in 1929. Daniel has been...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...1985). Historians Pete Daniel and Elizabeth Jacoway have persuasively argued that the legacy of Little Rock's Central High is very much with us today, as its actors—black and white students—grapple...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...per year. In the 1960s and 1970s, television broadcasts spread white gospel music into US living rooms while Elvis Presley toured with gospel quartets. At each stage in southern gospel's...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...travel? The 1895 discovery of smallpox among the African American settlers prompted the US State Department to to accept financial responsibility for the colonists' travel costs from Mexico. After their...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...and narrow windows, and the blasts of thunder shaking the walls evoke the history of slavery. Like naïve Hansel and Gretel, we seek shelter and sugar. Walker describes her work...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...panels. Cover letters for panels should indicate the theme and identify the panel's participants. We are eager to make this event as engaging as possible and encourage presentations that represent...
The Black Belt
...of the modern American freedom struggle. In the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott, the figures of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. helped bring international attention to the mass mobilization...
August, 1959: Morning Service
...like churned butter, my eyes closed, freed my mind into the light on the window’s other side, followed the dreamy bell-ring of Randy Ford's cows across Licklog Creek to a...
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
...Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2003). Among her current projects is an anthology on new technology, a book manuscript on racial epistemologies in the electronic age, and the...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...offices. Several alumni, such as Ralph Ellison, who worked on the New York City guide, and Saul Bellow and Studs Terkel went on to distinguished literary careers. But you can...