The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...time Jerry) Jones and I met forty years ago as coworkers—freight clerks and passenger ticket agents at the Greyhound bus station in Jackson, Mississippi. I was a high school senior....
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Susannah Darrow on Arts Organizations in Atlanta
Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Notes from Elmina III, 2011. Gouache, collage and ink on paper, 12 x 9 inches. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Gift of Bert and Cathy Clark, 2011.9. The Atlantic expanse...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...cinematically portraying the Lovings. The camera eye presenting the narrative reveals an implicit resistance to bombastic inauthenticity. Nichols frames the Lovings via numerous shots of Richard's construction jobs—building home frames...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012). In 1561 Spanish adventurers took a young man—who some believe was probably a member...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...1950s displaced many Black Atlantans Part 7: Dr. Wiese describes long-term impacts of spatially-oriented discrimination Part 8: Dr. Wiese describes how recent suburbanization in Atlanta and across the US continues to reinforce...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...House Museum.1Miriam Denard, phone interview with author, January 15th, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author Donnie sings in the courtyard, Atlanta, Georgia, July 12, 2015. Photograph by Clint Fluker. Courtesy of...
The Cobb County Braves
On Monday, November 11, residents of the city of Atlanta were surprised to learn that their baseball team, the Atlanta Braves, will move to a new suburban stadium in 2017....
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Chase Prairie, Okefenokee Swamp, May 1912. Photo by Francis Harper, courtesy of Delma Presley. When Silas Lee’s group came to the FFF, the local economy still revolved around turpentine and...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...because their program quality was superior," she writes, "the fragmentary evidence indicates that many listeners preferred their local and independent station, and loved announcers, singers, storytellers, and readers of news...