The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
Daniel A. Pollock, Atlanta, GeorgiaOverviewThe Battle of Atlanta figures prominently in the Union's conquest of the Confederacy in the final year of the Civil War and in Abraham Lincoln's re-election...
View ArticleIn Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the...
Joey Fink, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillOverviewThis essay examines the campaign to organize southern workers in the J. P. Stevens textile plants in the 1970s, placing working-class women...
View ArticleLift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
Dorothy Moye, Decatur, GeorgiaOverviewIn this online exhibition catalog, Dorothy Moye presents and comments upon the textile art of Gwendolyn Ann Magee (1943–2011). This catalog accompanies the...
View ArticleBricking the Church
Robert Morgan, Cornell UniversityOverviewRobert Morgan reads "Bricking the Church" in Zirconia, North Carolina, at Green River Baptist Church. Morgan's poem traces the fraught lineage of the church's...
View Article2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
Jericho Brown and Kevin Young, Emory UniversityOverviewAn evening event of the 2014 Callaloo Conference held at Emory University, the annual Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading featured Jericho Brown and...
View ArticleKeep Your Eye upon the Scale
Tom Hansell and Patricia Beaver, Appalachian State University; Angela Wiley, independent media producerOverviewKeep Your Eye upon the Scale is a documentary collaboratively produced by Tom Hansell,...
View ArticleSegregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the...
Karen Beck Pooley, Lehigh UniversityOverviewFew metropolitan areas better represent recent national demographic trends and the challenges of neighborhood- and school-based segregation than the Atlanta...
View ArticleHow I Shed My Skin
John Howard, King's College London and Jim Grimsley, Emory UniversityOverviewThis publication pairs a video presentation featuring Jim Grimsley speaking about How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the...
View Article"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and...
Holly Hobbs, Tulane UniversityOverviewAs an extended ethnographic account of the GRASSROOTS! performance event in the aftermath of 2012's Hurricane Isaac, this article follows the musicians involved in...
View ArticleWhen the Border Crossed Me
Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Duke UniversityOverviewCharles D. Thompson, Jr., ties his experience working with immigrant laborers to border crossings and the interdependency of agricultural workers and...
View ArticleReconsidering Appalachian Studies
Chad Berry, Berea College, Phillip J. Obermiller, University of Cincinnati, and Shaunna L. Scott, University of KentuckyOverviewIn an excerpt from Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by...
View ArticleOpening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
Natasha Trethewey, Emory University and Charles Henry Rowell, CallalooOverviewNatasha Trethewey welcomes the 2014 Callaloo Conference, "Making Art: Writing, Authorship, and Critique," and Charles Henry...
View ArticleAfricana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
Howard Dodson, Howard UniversityOverviewHoward Dodson, former director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and current director of Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research...
View ArticleSt. Catherines Island Flyover
Steve Bransford, Anthony Martin, and Michael Page, Emory UniversityOverviewIn this short video and essay, Steve Bransford, Anthony Martin, and Michael Page offer glimpses of the terrain and history of...
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Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic...
Overview Alexis S. Wells reviews Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).Review Although scholars of the African...
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Contesting the Roadways:The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a...
Overview In this blog post, Mark Auslander revisits the reenactment of the 1946 Moore's Ford lynching. In 2015, the reenactment coincided with a pro-Confederate flag rally, and the two events...
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Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
Overview Elena Conis reviews Ellen Griffith Spears's Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014).ReviewIn 2001,...
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Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin,...
Overview In this essay, Andrew M. Busch discusses the histories of segregation and gentrification in Austin, Texas's Eastside and examines the rise of New Urbanism in the development of the Eastside's...
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North Carolina: A State of Shock
Overview Dan Carter assesses the current tumult in North Carolina government and the "hijacking of the state's political system."IntroductionMoral Monday, July 30, 2013. Cartoon by Kevin Siers....
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From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White)...
Overview Examining the rise of the gospel singing trio The Martins and the deployment of their rural Arkansas roots to shape their popularity in Christian music entertainment, this essay reveals how an...
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