A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...bounce, tracing the music's birth, development, and connection to the long trajectory of poor and working-class African American music-making in the city. In doing so, he offers not only a...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...five pillars of Wikipedia. (We also discussed, at length, the ways these pillars, which can seem impartial and good, are interpreted to constrict knowledge production and replicate racist, classist, and...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...is potentially a powerful development. Digital Scholarship Lab, Screenshot of Voting America: United States Politics, 1840–2008, "Dot-Density Map of Presidential Voting, 1920," University of Richmond, 2011. Andrew J. Torget: I...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...studied by SEF registered an increase of about 140,000 private school students and more than 1.2 million public school students. For every student in private school in the South in...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Patriot resembles Henry Hampton’s Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years (Part 1, 1986; Part 2, 1989) in narrative style, content, and editing. Anne Braden in the SCEF office...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946–1988, and LeeAnn Lands, Associate Professor of American Studies and History, Kennesaw State University and author of The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...During Tom’s tenure as director, CDS has become an internationally recognized documentary arts institution, annually offering many undergraduate courses and continuing education classes leading to certificates. Integral to these educational...
The Cobb County Braves
..."We . . . recognize that what is insurmountable is we can't control traffic, which is the No. 1 reason why our fans don't come to more games. . ....