Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...especially in "right-to-work" states such as Georgia. The Georgia Department of Labor indicated that temporary staffing employment tripled in the state between 1980 and 1985.9Randall Williams, Hard Labor: A Report...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...dance styles flowing from Delaware, Georgia, South Carolina, and elsewhere. Seventeen was one of dozens of locally broadcast teen dance shows in this era. Each show featured musical performances and...
Sapelo Island Flyover
Video and Essay View the transcript of the video, along with a glossary of terms, here. A barrier island on the Georgia coast, Sapelo has an unusually long and varied...
Deep Ellum Blues
...soon after the war, and settled in a variety of 'Freedmantowns' around the city. One of these Freedmantowns remained in the far north of the city in my own childhood...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...M. Brown commuted her sentence in September 1910. Milledgeville and Tattnall Prisons, Georgia State Prison Farm, Milledgeville, Georgia., 1940. Photograph by Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers. Courtesy of Georgia State University...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...The shape of Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page's installation mirrors that of the gallery in order to comment on how culture — rituals, codes, manners, and customs — is...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...endless pain/And in immense perdition sinks the soul."3Ibid, 15. Oxford, Georgia: The College Campus Edward Lloyd Thomas (surveyor), Plan of the Town of Oxford, Georgia, 1837. Courtesy of Emory University...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reconstruct Bishop and other cave guides as avatars of slave self-empowerment. While these historical figures found ways of confusing the behavioral codes of slavery in their everyday interactions with cave...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
An Unlikely Bohemia We are hope despite the times. R.E.M., "These Days" (1986) In Athens, Georgia, in the 1980s, if you were young and willing to live without much money,...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...and tuning in to programming from the many large stations.13Ibid, 132-133. Radio's big-city bias changed after World War II. Eager to promote the growth of the medium, the FCC declared...