Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Visiting Flaherty," Critical review of Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story. Unpublished ms.: Proceedings of the Performance Studies International Conference, Aug. 2008. Forthcoming in Liminalities (http://liminalities.net/). The term "authenticity," a sticky wicket in documentary theory and criticism,...
Editors
...among the Highlander Center, Southern Regional Council and CROW, financed by the Ford, Rockefeller and C.S. Mott Foundations. Smith is the author or editor of four books, more than forty...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...legacy of local Sacred Harp was in jeopardy. In 1994, cousins and song leaders David and Clarke Lee of Hoboken launched an effort to change their Sacred Harp tradition in...
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...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...Ann Smith's terms, "a deficit in [her] education" in elementary and middle school.9Interview with Ann Smith by the author, March 10, 2009. Whatever the case, Ward asserted that being black...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...towns. Gentrification is occurring, but the area remains relatively cheap, isolated, hard to get to, and modest, especially outside the historic districts and areas close to campus. And somehow, within...
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...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...many records have simply not survived into the present. This book accounts for small numbers (fewer than thirty). However, all told, there were an additional forty-two Indian children living in...