Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
..."a harbinger of mass culture" that helped bring about new codes of conduct as well as cross-racial relationships.3Kasson, 112. Kasson's history offers a relatively rosey view of amusement parks as...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...of these colorful hand-painted signs speaks of persistent creativity and the spirit of small business. The sheer volume of these signs in the city affirms the popularity of this mode...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...2007. Courtesy of SouthArts. The power of color became a signature of her mature work. Another influence throughout Magee's childhood and youth that affected her later work was the pervasive...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...signifying moments aren't significant enough because of Mason Jr.'s characterization. She writes: He's a prototypical good-but-aimless kid. We see his foibles—he's a bit surly and a tad whiny, he smokes...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...to ascertain whether she is inside or outside of the prison, an ambiguity that signaled her fitness for freedom" (22). Fusing the narratives of Gault and Cobb, Haley addresses the...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...rice planters for a slave-based plantation economy. Jennison unpacks Georgia's slave codes from 1755, 1765, and 1770 to demonstrate how a Savannah-based, Lowcountry elite eventually seized power. Jennison cautions, however,...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...electric chair. In Murder on Shades Mountain, Melanie S. Morrison recovers the Peterson case from the shadow of Scottsboro—arguably the most significant and certainly the most chronicled miscarriage of justice...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...for Zelia, colonial laws dictated that the slave must be blamed and executed for her master's injury.4Commenting on the Black Code and the kinds of punishment inflicted on slaves for...
Cajun South Louisiana
...discovered shrimp and crawfish, making a compelling cuisine along the way. They came into a slave society, and after 1780 a significant number of them began to gain slaves. Most...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...