The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...York Times and Atlanta Magazine to illustrate these correlations. Nevertheless, this study only identified elements correlated to a lack of upward mobility without regard for causation. So if you'd like...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
The New Orleans-based Amistad Research Center is the nation's oldest, largest, and most comprehensive independent archive specializing in African American history and culture. For the first time in its history,...
The Klan Tableau
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Birdhouses
...change. Inspired, I walked across the yard and photographed a periscope-looking house emerging from an apparent wilderness, then back toward the unfamiliar new pond. As many times as I had...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
El Dorado newspaper
El Dorado Daily Walnut Valley Times. Untitled. April 22, 1893. "Let us not howl at the south for murdering 'niggers.' Up at Salina a mob hung a darkey for slashing...
Race
...told, and not told, this tale. The one time Great-Uncle Paul brought his wife to New York he asked his siblings not to bring their spouses, and that is where...
Remembering Documentary Filmmaker George Stoney
...public-access television, a teacher at New York University, and a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was remembered in the New York Times, the Village Voice, and by Tom Rankin...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...Calhoun on Saturday, May 5 to participate in a Sacred Harp singing held in conjunction with the traveling exhibition. The event attracted a group of perhaps a dozen long-time white...
Glocal Lounge
...regions, offers critical scrutiny of any monolithic "South," interrogates historical developments and geographies over time, and maps expressive cultural forms associated with place. Perhaps our blog can serve as a...