Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...case in point: In the dream, I am with the Fugitive Poets. We're gathered for a photograph. Behind us, the skyline of Atlanta hidden by the photographer's backdrop— a lush...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
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...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...in numerous galleries, including Get This Gallery, M Rich Gallery, Beep Beep Gallery, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Kibbee Gallery, and the Atlanta Preservation Center. In this clip, Dowda discusses her life-altering...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
Endstate ATL's solidarity gathering table offerings including COVID tests and readings on mutual aid. Atlanta, Georgia, January 2023. Photograph by and courtesy of Julian Rose. In May of 2023, when...
Besieged Terrain
...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...But as we revisit Flaherty's Louisiana Story, we weigh its merits and deficiencies in terms of the kind of documentary performance Flaherty was making. Flaherty's method involved staging, or, more...
Editors
...rights and environmental activism of a group of African American women in Gainesville, Georgia, the Newtown Florist Club. She is the former associate director of the Southern Regional Council and...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...the Southeast, boasted new "barn dance[s] with pictures."27Peterson, 232. Sponsors like Ralston Purina's Pet Milk, Chattanooga Medicine Company, and Martha White Flour began syndicating country music variety shows in television...