Inside Poor Monkey's
...over the Dutch door separating the kitchen from the main public space, through which beverage purchases are passed, reads, "This is a high class place. Act respectable." In one corner...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...in Alabama (New York: Columbia University Press, 1905), 527; Dan T. Carter, When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1867 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...every burden her life had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. August, 1959: Morning Service Beside...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
..."The Restraints: Open and Hidden," Life Magazine, September 24, 1956, reproduced in Gordon Parks, 106. Parks took more than two-hundred photographs during the week he spent with the family. All...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...South Intersections of music with place, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class Native American musics, Latina/o musics, musics of immigrant groups Local music scenes: punk, hardcore, rock, folk, hip-hop, emerging...
Piedmont Blues
Figure 2.1: The Piedmont. Map courtesy of James W. Clay and Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989.) Although the Piedmont plateau stretches from New...
Race
...on behalf of the race. The poet imagines Great-Uncle Paul in cool, sagey groves counting rings in redwood trunks, imagines pencil markings in a ledger book, classifications, imagines a sidelong...
The Chesapeake Bay
...Bay," is similarly recent, perhaps only several thousand years old. But, 10,000 years ago the sea level was 325 lower than today and the Atlantic coastline stood 60 miles offshore...
Love and Death at Second-Line
Love and Death at Second-Line NEW ORLEANS — Sixty people stood at the corner of Ursulines and N. Robertson, in front of the ramshackle Tremé watering hole, Joe's Cozy Corner...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
Presentation About the Speaker James W. Porter is the Meigs Distinguished Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia and a faculty member in School of Marine Programs, Water Resources and Conservation Ecology. Porter has...