Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Atlanta are welcome, but priority will be given to papers that relate in some way to the themes listed above. Preference will also be given to proposals for fully constituted...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...Sacred Harp singers like myself, thirty or so listeners from the Calhoun area, and three participants in a related predominantly-black shape-note singing community who had long heard of Sacred Harp...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the Cold War, who listened to my pa sit in front of the TV set and rant against any one who questioned the ownership and disposition of property as it...
Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities
...black students' educational experiences and possibilities. For more insight into segregation across the Atlanta metro region, listen to Karen Pooley's featured interview and read her full article at Southern Spaces....
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
...inequalities. His work also assesses differences as productive mechanisms of affiliation, identity, coalition, and struggle. Informed by queer, feminist, materialist, critical race, and spatial theory, his research and teaching are...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...arm, said, “Listen, you stick close to me when you go out back, they’re gonna get ya’.” Me, I follow suit down, shower up snack bar and closing fourteen, I’m...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...to the states of the "mid-South:" Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. I decided to photograph in all of the cities in those states that the 2000 census listed as...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...states listed as above the national average of "tolerance," not one is in the South.6Nate Silver, "How Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage Is Changing, and What It Means," The New York...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...that a captured Spaniard named Juan Ortiz was nearby, Juan de Añasco "stopped listening and began celebrating certain that he had found oro (gold)" (31). Even when Europeans received useful...