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New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
The New Orleans-based Amistad Research Center is the nation’s oldest, largest, and mostcomprehensive independent archive specializing in African American history and culture. For the first time in its history, Amistad announced on December 3 that they will be adding New Orleans hip-hop and bounce music to their historic collection. “Recent donations by the NOLA Hiphop […]
Miner’s sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia
John Vachon, Miner’s sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF34-032709-D.
Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937
This series of photographs by Arthur Rothstein depicts men and women in canning and packing plants in Winter Haven and Fort Pierce, Florida. While photographs of agricultural work appear throughout the Library of Congress’s Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Collection, I thought that these images of Floridian workers packing and canning grapefruits and oranges […]
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
This week’s featured image was inspired by my own search for information about my newly adopted neighborhood of Cabbagetown, a former milltown on Atlanta’s east side. With its perilous, narrow streets and shotgun houses—both hallmarks of milltown design—and with the Fulton Mill smokestacks looming mutely in the background, the neighborhood is saturated with remnants of […]
Gravestones in Chester County, South Carolina and Wythe County, Virginia
William Simpson gravestone (1777), Stone Cemetery, Chester County, South Carolina, March 1996. Rear faces of gravestones carved by Laurence Crone, McGavock Family Cemetery, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Virginia, August 1978. From Daniel Patterson, The True Image (read an essay excerpted from the book). Used with permission of the University of North Carolina Press.
“Possum on Terrace”: A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
Overview John Egerton, PDF of “Possum on Terrace,” 1987. In 1985, “The Southern War Correspondents and Camp Followers Association” and “The Popham Seminar” held a joint meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, to celebrate journalist Johnny Popham‘s seventy-fifth birthday. John Egerton, a journalist and scholar who has written about southern race relations, education, and food wrote this unpublished […]
Cultural Life in a “Chocolate City”: A Review of Natalie Hopkinson’s Go-Go Live
Overview Review In Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City journalist and educator Natalie Hopkinson uses go-go—the ultra-local style of African American popular music that has dominated metro Washington, DC, since the 1980s—as a window into the life of a “Chocolate City,” a phrase popularized by funk artist George Clinton to […]
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art
Overview Review Peter Harholdt, Radcliffe Bailey in his studio with Clean Up II, November 2010. Over the last two decades, Radcliffe Bailey has produced some of the most distinctive art in America. History is the subject—personal, racial, national. The idiom is complex, drawing from Rauschenburg and Basquiat, Bearden and Lawrence, articulated in painting, assemblage, drawing, […]
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
Southern Spaces (https://ssredesign.ecdsdev.org/), a peer-reviewed online academic journal, invites proposals for essays, photo essays, original short documentaries, and multimedia projects about the natural and built environments of the U.S. South and their global connections. We encourage submissions that combine innovative scholarship and analysis with ideas for digital media elements such as images, maps, audio, or […]