No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
... Texas Music, 2007. Photograph by Steve Hopson. Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 2.5. Despite the book's title, progressive country is only one of the many expressive forms Mellard draws...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...1960s movement protest, the hilly residential street where Drew grew up and still resides was a battleground in the fight against segregation. In the 1940s, Center Street was the dividing...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...the narrative he crafts. He writes: "As for me, [the book is] something of a memoir. In many ways, John and Bill and I have lived the same life, in...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans Matt Sakakeeny traces the celebrated and contested political and economic terrain where brass bands make music that defines the city. In Sakakeeny's...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...an agent of the diaspora, as a ground for the slave trade, or as a temporal gulf that separates Bailey from his genetic past, each work recognizes the ocean’s size...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...long-form interpretive and critical pieces result from extended scholarly engagement with a topic, frequently breaking new ground in critical regional studies, African American, Native, and American Studies, women's and gender...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem "Failed Memory Exercise." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Homage To...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Jerome Foundation, and Stanford University where he...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...Gainey acknowledged a couple of times on camera that he was gay but never discussed any of his longtime partners in any detail. We tried to steer him to fill...
Editors
...Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University Ayoung Kim Editorial Associate Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University Nyaradzai Mahachi Editorial Associate Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University Jesse P. Karlsberg Consulting Editor Emory...