Rising Up
Video Community Ideas Station, Excerpt from Rising Up, 2005....
Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band
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Besieged Terrain
...vistas. Erik Reece and James J. Krupa's The Embattled Wilderness: The Natural and Human History of Robinson Forest and the Fight for Its Future tells of a more ordinary-appearing, besieged,...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
Review A Gullah proverb warns, "every sick ain't fa tell de doctor" ("don't tell the doctor all your ailments"). After reading Sex, Sickness, and Slavery, the wisdom of that saying...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Book Library. Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 The film Anne Braden: Southern Patriot shows how Anne Braden found her voice as a southern white...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...135–137; Bruce Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (De Capo Press, 2002), 117. Assertions of whiteness animated many forms of cultural expression during this...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...or stucco walls; and other architectural targets of opportunity that converted homes into billboards. The linear reporting within neighborhoods offered by the markings offers a unique Katrina narrative. Although the...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...efforts to trace the counter-narrative's lineage. Celebration of Emancipation Day, Charleston, South Carolina, January 8, 1877. Sketch by Harry Ogden. Originally published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, February 3, 1877....
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...frequency with which houses go unfinished or unutilized, as Americans go homeless. (top left) Connections; (top middle) Decommissioned flooring, moulding, railing, siding, and plain pickets; (top right) Abandoned frame for...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...replied "that this was true, since the pictures were based compositionally on the Confederate flag."9John Szarkowski, William Eggleston's Guide (Cambridge, MA: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976), 11. Eggleston, colorful in...