Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...or cultural (re)development and how contradictions inherent in such initiatives have, in many ways, come to define the city's recovery narrative. As New Orleanian Afro-diasporic community-based expressive art forms (exemplified...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
..."South," "region," and "community" loosely throughout. As a result, differences between real regions and imagined Souths are not as clearly demarcated as one might hope. These concerns notwithstanding, Upon Provincialism...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...Richmond, has led a citywide re-examination of the war and its legacies by sponsoring a series of community conversations about "The Future of Richmond's Past." Slavery's relationship to the Civil...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...by kin and community. Addie Bundren's body is both nearly lost in a river and consumed in a fire deliberately set by her own son, Darl; two of her other...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
...and family, and the autobiographical impulse in poetry Part 3: Phillips discusses the history of Forsyth County, outlining how racism has shaped the image of community Part 4: Phillips discusses...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...History Project, will each deliver a keynote address. The symposium will convene an interdisciplinary meeting of scholars and community activists concerned with issues related to Atlanta. We are also eager...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...mayor, and his impact on the city’s topography, race relations, and the development of its artistic community. For more information about the role that art organizations like NEXUS have played...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...that we most definitely needed the highway. We've watched families, people killed over there on Murray Mountain. Accident after accident. And the whole community in fear that one of these...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...vernacular dialect; ludicrous or crudely comic situations often involving violence; trickster figures; local lore and rural community customs. Although the southwestern humorists were generally well-placed southern gentlemen, what happens in...