Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
“What the Same Body Means in Different Places” Section one of “Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism.” See the full transcipt of this video below. I am at work on a book about the interpenetration of locality and racial consciousness in American poetry between Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and Barack Obama’s inauguration. Tentatively titled “The Ditch is […]
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962 and graduated from the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Montana in 1997. She currently resides in the Altamaha Community of Reidsville, […]
“Looking Back and Moving Forward”: The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
The SCLC Collection Elaine Tomlin, Joseph Lowery leading a prayer during the 1982 Pilgrimage to Washington for Voting Rights, Peace, Economic Justice, North Carolina, 1982. Courtesy of SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. Founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, including Ralph David Abernathy, Ella Baker, Joseph E. Lowery, […]
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: The Raymond Andrews Story Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: The Raymond Andrews Story, 2010. I came to the work of Raymond Andrews in 2002, my final year as an undergraduate at Georgia State University. In a business writing class, we were generating mock resumes, cover letters, inter-office memos—that sort of thing. Our […]
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
Presentation Part 2: Engelhardt’s discussion of state market bulletins’ history, content, readership, circulation, and archival importance Part 3: Engelhardt overviews the correspondence among bulletin readers and Lawrence Part 4: Engelhardt asks questions such as, “What do farm bulletins and letters reveal about race, class, and gender history?” Part 5: Engelhardt relates the influence of market bulletins in Eudora Welty’s […]
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and colorblind ideology Part 4: The religious space of the Sunbelt, meritocratic rhetoric, Chik-Fil-A and gender Part 5: Corporate branding, blending of meritocratic and evangelical ideologies, and political […]
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
Essay Jesse P. Karlsberg, Aaron Kahn of Paris, France, leads a song at the first Ireland Sacred Harp Convention, Cork, Ireland, March 6, 2011. On March 3–6, 2011, 150 people gathered at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, for the first Ireland Sacred Harp Singing Convention. A sacred, non-denominational, group singing tradition associated with the […]
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
Reading John Lane reads the poem “Returning Home, Saxon Mills.” Poem text. About the Author John Lane teaches environmental studies at Wofford College where he also directs the Goodall Center for Environmental Studies. His Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems was published by Mercer University Press in 2011. His latest prose book is My Paddle to […]
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
Interview with Sandra Beasley Part 2: Jake Adam York & Sandra Beasley discuss traveling and engaging with the “culinary South,” “traditional” cuisine, and more Part 3: Jake Adam York & Sandra Beasley discuss embodying other spaces and Beasley reads two poems Part 4: Jake Adam York & Sandra Beasley discuss living at UVA and the traces of Faulkner; […]
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
Introduction: Theorists in Dialogue about Native American Literature, Hybridity, and Tribal Sovereignty Craig Womack: Each of the participants who joined me in the Emory discussion on April 22, 2011—Lisa Brooks, Michael Elliot, Arnold Krupat, and Elvira Pulitano—has authored a range of writings that we might view as creating a dialogue with each other in the […]