Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...originally from Chauvin, Louisiana, lives outside Atlanta with her wife and two daughters. She works as a User Experience Researcher in social media and holds a PhD in American Studies...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...accessed June 30, 2014, https://southernspaces.org/2008/horrible-beautiful-beast. On the politics and aesthetics of milk in Kara Walker, see Patricia Yaeger's "Circum-Atlantic Superabundance: Milk as World-Making in Alice Randall and Kara Walker," American...
A Mess of Poke
...Times on August 14, 2011, which features Kelly Callahan, a resident of East Atlanta, who began foraging on the abandoned lots of vacant, bank-owned properties in her area. Gardens planted...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...Textbooks" (http://cwmemory.com/2010/10/20/black-confederates-in-virginia-textbooks/). See also Ta-Nehisi Coates, "Understanding Virginia's Textbook Lie," The Atlantic, October 20, 2010 (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/10/understanding-virginias-history-textbook-lie/64859/) Detail of Siah Carter on the USS Monitor, James River, Virginia, 1862. Courtesy of...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...“Theories of Time and Space,” as well as music and/as poetry Part 6: Trethewey discusses Atlanta as retreat and homecoming as well as Decatur and place’s possession of memory Part 7: Trethewey...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...an article on narratives of the Atlanta child murders (in PMLA), a piece on Black Hawk (in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance), essays on the intersections of Native...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...the WPA slave narratives upon which much of the new scholarship drew, wrote as if the Deep South were one vast slave community from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...in general, and the writer Toni Cade Bambara in particular, into French. Ieva described oral interviews she undertook with Lithuanian immigrants in Atlanta regarding their hopes for a culture and...