Encountering COVID
...I spoke with recently said, "I can't talk about it." She started the dialogue and then she said, "I can't. I've just put this away in a compartment. I just can't...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy, (New York: Vintage Books, 1983). With his 2012 publication, African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry, University of Illinois-Carbondale history professor Ras...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing,” the author describes the “Hoboken style” of Sacred Harp singing in south Georgia’s Okefenokee region, where “Georgia Harmonies” will stop (and feature Sacred Harp singing) in...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...Georgia. Photo by Mary Odem, 2001 Blessed Sacrament Chapel in the Misión Católica de Nuestra Señora de las Américas. Doraville, Georgia. Photo by Mary Odem, 2000 ...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...and it's—how can I put this?—you can work on a short story sentence by sentence almost the way you work on a poem. And you can micromanage it. You can...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...for two calls, and at each call it is blown four times. The first call is for everyone to prepare for the service. The second call is for the starting...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...story, albeit in this case the story of a kid who, rather than announce to her parents she is gay, instead tells them she's called to be a preacher—even though...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...in Twentieth Century America [New York: Columbia University Press, 1991]: 197). This was the case in the Little Five Points lesbian-feminist community; most of the young women who were part of...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...of the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Map is in public domain. Bottom, Qualla Indian Reservation Marker, near Qualla in Haywood County, North Carolina, October...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...particular place can only produce a limited number of marketable artists) and, to a lesser degree, speculative exploration (that going to obscure places might yield a novel interpretation of the...