Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
...his archival holdings in the African American collections at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Best known for artist books that narrate African American history in striking...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...of Civil War reenactors, at best, and, at worst, modern Kluxers, trying to mainstream. Southern whites have celebrated the family, racial, and historical meanings of the Lost Cause, but these...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Tony nominations in a dozen categories, including Best Musical) and critiqued as racist for presenting black actors in blackface and retelling the story through the vehicle of the minstrel show....
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...the ability to think, to ascertain available courses of action, and to then act in one's best interest. When that interest runs counter to that of one's captors—who here wanted...
Local Color
...that local color writing first articulated for American audiences. From William Faulkner in the Delta to Flannery O'Connor in middle Georgia to Lee Smith in the Appalachians, the South's best...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...think is the best way— Mitchell: —That’s right— Jim Bunkley: For the sound, that’s the way you have to play. Mitchell: So you learned off Blind Lemon records? Jim Bunkley:...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Help in Production). This entire process accentuated and encouraged intense machismo and homophobia in Cuban society. In the work of some of the best Cuban dramatists, who additionally were homosexual...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...of" such spells, it is "as if [she] had just been born again," Hurston nonetheless was plagued at times with questions about how best to make sense of her inner...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...the end, we did our best to wrangle an honest character study. Top, one of Ryan Gainey's garden rooms, Decatur, Georgia, 2010. Bottom, Ryan Gainey, Decatur, Georgia, 2015. Screenshots from...
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...