Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...
Naming Each Place
...the poem "Runaway." Poem text. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In this interview, conducted on September 5, 2009, during the Decatur (Georgia) Book Festival, Jericho Brown talks with Natasha Trethewey about...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...essay is adapted from Wood's Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940. Copyright 2009 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu....
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...so long I can’t, I just can’t hardly tell you. You know I used to play a heap of them pieces that Blind Lemon used to play. Mitchell: Mm-hmm. So...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...in the corner of the room, making small talk in Cajun French even though my "project" tries to avoid nativist ideologies about Louisiana culture.2For instance, the ideologies that promote a...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...to get back to making pictures. I had been washing my hands incessantly as I drove from North Carolina to Mississippi, always keeping sanitizer close, trying to puzzle out how...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...group, Holga camera in hand. Prone to light leaks thanks to its plastic body, the Holga was a toy camera that allowed me to shift from 35mm to medium format...
When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...in our basements. See, we can come in here and entertain in this living room, but that recreation room downstairs is where we came and had our little dances, where...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...collaborate with local artists, as in the case of the mural at Hawk's Bar & Grill, painted by James "Brick" Brigance. A native of Orange Mound, Brigance adorned many neighborhood...