Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...and finally the "Jordan." While the first two names are borrowed from classical mythology, the Old Testament "Jordan" invokes slavery.22Spirituals such as "Go Down Moses" invoked the Jordan River to...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...insists, it was not the River Jordan (69). Along with a multifaceted explanation of these complications, Salafia also offers a provocative meditation on the meanings of southern spaces, both physical...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...only dead stones flat and smooth. This is not Jordan, only simple water muddied from a season of rain. This is not Jordan, but I have prayed at this shore...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...new farmhouse on Jordan Creek, the US Census valued her parents' holdings at $11, 617, which included real estate of $5,000 and twelve slaves. Samuel and Rosa's farm included two...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...wilderness or the stormy banks of the Jordan River, which one must cross: Sweet rivers of redeeming love Lie just before mine eyes, Had I the pinions of a dove,...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...performed at the Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, November 22, 2015. Photograph by Jordan Streiff. Courtesy of LiFT Art Salon. The AUC is a collective of Historically Black Colleges and...
A City Divided
...were very respectable streets."1Walter McElreath, Walter McElreath: An Autobiography (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1984). To McElreath, Jackson Hill was well-off—and white. African American resident Millie Jordan remembered an area that elite...
Writing Appalachia
...of the northwest South Carolina Piedmont. In sharp contrast to all of the above, folklorists and cultural geographers such as Henry Glassie and Terry Jordan-Bychkov insist that culturally, Southern and...
Single Centers of Creation?
...Red-backed Salamander Hemidactylium scutatum Four-toed Salamander [SC] Aneides aeneus Green Salamander [E] Desmognathus imitator Imitator Salamander Plethodon jordani Jordan's Salamander Eurycea junaluska Junaluska Salamander [T] Gyrinophilus porphyriticus duryi Kentucky Spring...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in L.A. and Beyond, eds. Christina Heatherton and Jordan T. Camp (Los Angeles: Freedom Now Books, 2012). While reigning ideology holds that...