Trouble the Land: Crow and Molasses
...in exchange for an integrated school system. At the time it had a lot of attractiveness to it, but in hindsight it was an awful mistake. https://vimeo.com/1166502642?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci Civil rights attorney...
Trouble the Land: The Rise of Black Political Power
The Rise of Black Political Power Maynard Jackson: I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes...
Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
Introduction At present, the people of Appalachia continue to endure the contraction and retreat of extractive industry with little more than big-box retail for employment. They work for local hospitals...
Deep Ellum Blues
...only chronological history of the revival of Deep Ellum that I know of is provided by The Dallas Observer: https://web.archive.org/web/20030718034108/http://thedoordallas.com/rdh/observer_july_1999.htm. ;I mention this because the club now seems to me to have...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
Review In 1931, an all-white jury in Birmingham, Alabama, sentenced Willie Peterson to death for a mysterious attack that left two white women dead and a third critically injured. The...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
Review The yeoman farmer is a central figure in debates over the historical dispossessions that created the place we now call Appalachia. For historians like Ron Eller, these self-sufficient small...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...depravity—what Jason Huettner has called "poverty porn."15Jason Huettner, "Capitalist Realism or Poverty Porn?" Hyperallergic, July 7, 2011, https://hyperallergic.com/28555/capitalist-realism-or-poverty-porn. See also Larry Vonalt, "The Dignity of Shelby Lee Adams's 'Disturbing' Family...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
Essay The tours that I lead at Arlington National Cemetery begin here. We are standing in Section 27, a location in the northeastern corner of the cemetery bordered by the...