When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...from mildly interested to fully engaged as Kee's powerful voice ripped through the speakers: "I'm going to run this race, if I go by myself," Kee sang as the choir...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...history of numerous large-scale hill communities down to the present as “shatter zones,” places of resistance to and refuge from some of the most destructive effects of state-making and state-rule....
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...1940s, Gainey grew up poor and gay in rural South Carolina and attended Clemson University, where he studied ornamental horticulture. Using vernacular plants in classical garden design, he became a...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...and, in some cases, with each other. She asked us to close our eyes and imagine what it would be like to stand there, chains rubbing away at our wrists...
Theories of Time and Space
Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...bought a hog and a toddler at auction. Its mother, screaming in anguish, runs desperately out of the cotton field. —Gwen Magee The flat plane of two-dimensional artwork cannot contain...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Rusk, The "Segregation Tax": The Cost of Racial Segregation to Black Homeowners (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2001), http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2001/10/metropolitanpolicy-rusk. Rusk finds a "segregation tax" for black homeowners and non-black homeowners living...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Chapman. Courtesy of David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Looking at a community such as Santiago shows that the plantation was not...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Country Music Scholar
...honky tonk of the oil boom with older Appalachian music Part 4: Malone discusses the commercialization of rural southern music first as “hillbilly” and later as “country” Part 5: Malone discusses relationships...