Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...aspect of Atlanta, but priority will be given to those that relate to the themes listed above. Preference will also be given to proposals for fully constituted panels. Cover letters...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...of two books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue (Kent State University, 2000), which won the 1999 Stan and Tom Wick Prize for Poetry and was the finalist for the...
Birdhouses
Introduction When we examine a nest, we place ourselves at the origin of confidence in the world. —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space1Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (New York:...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...black phalanx. What is monument to their legacy? All the grave markers, all the crude headstones— water—lost. Now fish dart among their bones, and we listen for what the waves...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...next day. On Aventine, like any unfamiliar neighborhood a rebel tried to enlist, the call to insurrection demanded slaves risk all on the word of a stranger and understandably left...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...US South is neither solid nor exceptional. It lacks an essence (and therefore cannot be known in essentialist terms), a polity, and clearly defined boundaries. Such, at least, are some...
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...rising global temperatures may have contributed to the increased frequency of droughts in the last few years. Environmentalist Bill McKibben recently penned an essay in the magazine Rolling Stone which...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Atlanta are welcome, but priority will be given to papers that relate in some way to the themes listed above. Preference will also be given to proposals for fully constituted...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...Sacred Harp singers like myself, thirty or so listeners from the Calhoun area, and three participants in a related predominantly-black shape-note singing community who had long heard of Sacred Harp...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...exhibition about that very history. I wanted to understand its origins. At least at the surface, people may be more familiar with the recent history. They have recollections of anti-gay...