Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...Indianapolis automotive headlights manufacturer Carl Fisher, who had plowed his fortune into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and later into promoting long-distance roads, including the earlier Lincoln Highway. The Dixie Highway—one...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...and scholarship in today's Africana archives eco-system. All that's needed are fresh questions and a creative imagination; the stories and objects are there for the taking, promoting, and interpreting. Africana...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...political football. Promotional infographic illustrating the making of Boyhood, 2014. © IFC Films. In times of economic crisis, many pundits and politicians choose to blame our problems on a degraded...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Folklore Society annual meeting that Harry Oster helped found. Lomax used the opportunity to challenge the cultural integrity of CODOFIL, a state agency designed to promote and preserve French in...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...Xavier Blk and Will Edmond, two of Atlanta's hottest DJs and party promoters, discussed their business philosophy and the "creative" benefits of living as a collective. Finally, hometown R&B singer, Donnie,...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...A black-and-white flyer near the snack counter promotes the 75th Anniversary of Drive-Ins by offering seventy-five cent popcorn. Hull's large, white movie screen is supported by metal framework in the...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...works seem to have been unable to avoid using the form not only to promote their way of life but also to express their deep anxieties about it. Plantation Romances...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
Introduction James V. Catano Lush wilderness in a remote bayou and the exploratory genius of oil drilling technology; traditional ways of living and the intrusions of modern life; natural wealth...