Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...barriers designed to prevent "undesirables" from entering. In fact, these sites were not the harbingers of mass culture, but carefully regulated spaces that emphasized the social conventions established outside its...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...(2023). "Florida’s Private Schools 2022–23: School Year Annual Report," https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7562/urlt/PS-annualReport2023.pdf; Alec MacGillis, “Private Schools, Public Money: School Leaders Are Pushing Parents to Exploit Voucher Programs,” ProPublica, Jan. 21, 2024, https://www.propublica.org/article/private-schools-vouchers-parents-ohio-public-funds....
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...men that we no longer will let them use clubs on us in the dark corners. We're going to make them do it in the glaring light of television."6Quoted in...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...90. Further quotations from Georgia Scenes will refer to the edition edited by Rachels. My reading here is guided by: Jessica Wegmann, "'Playing in the Dark' with Longstreet's Georgia Scenes:...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Rap Group at the Source Awards 1995," YouTube video, 5:36, posted by The Max Trailers, October 12, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwLG7aSYM3w. Held in Gallery 72, attendees enjoyed a visual art exhibit featuring Atlanta-inspired pieces by the LiFT...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...9, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/was-the-art-of-s-town-worth-the-pain/522366/; Aja Romano, "S-Town is a stunning podcast. It probably shouldn't have been made," Vox, April 1, 2017, https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/30/15084224/s-town-review-controversial-podcast-privacy. Around the same time that plans for a movie...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...theology could be summed up in his assertion that "all men are bastards, but God loves them anyway." The famed Trappist monk Thomas Merton, who occasionally excused himself from his...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...from issues of accuracy of representation in a documentary to issues of performance. In this sense we revisited not just Flaherty's sites, but also something of his methods. In the...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Asheville," Asheville Citizen-Times, August 6, 2013, http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20130806/NEWS/308060023/Protest-packs-Asheville; "McCrory Image Plummets," Public Policy Polling, July 16, 2013, http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/pat-mccrory/; and John Frank, "Under the Dome," Raleigh News and Observer, August 14, 2013,...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...Primer," YouTube video, 13:27, posted by Mike Stagg, May 2, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r8mZIhEg4s&feature=youtu.be; and Richard Thompson, "Legislative Auditor: Louisiana missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars from oil and gas incentive,"...