Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...powerful numbers like "South Carolina (Barnwell)," a blistering critique of the construction of the Savannah River nuclear plant in 1975, Scott-Heron directed his listeners' attention to new political battlefields and...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...and they couldn't catch me. I was in the army in Guatemala, so I had a compass. I took a train through Mexico. I swam across the Rio Grande. I...
Rising Up
Video Community Ideas Station, Excerpt from Rising Up, 2005....
My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery
She was my grandfather's second wife. Coming late to him, she was the same age his first wife had been when he married her. He made my grandmother a young...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...income, but then switched to the less cinematically interesting (and for some critics, less symmetrically ironic) work of a telephone lineman because it paid better and was less dangerous. As...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...of Roger W. Brucker's 2009 Grand, Gloomy and Peculiar—as a forgotten romantic hero of the nineteenth century, a figure of Black accomplishment and self-determination who overcame the dehumanization of slavery....
"Aint that Something?"
..."racket." Most of the time Dawn stays with her grandmother, who is leading a grass-roots effort to petition the governor to stop the stripmining of Blue Bear Mountain, which rises...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...numbers, vetting projects, and trading horses in an effort that to longtime observers must have seemed a fool's errand. Competition, not collaboration, had long characterized metropolitan relationships and it wasn't...