Social Justice Environmentalism
...Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016); Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Church, Brantley County, constituted in 1819, moved to its current site near Schlatterville in 1822. Photo by Laurie Kay Sommers, 2001. Courtesy of South Georgia Folklife Collections, Valdosta State University...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...public housing as a primary, if not requisite, strategy for private sector urban reinvestment and vitality. Goetz explains how this approach has emerged as the new "urban planning orthodoxy." This...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...in the absence of his complaints. The official acknowledgement of his October letter was swift, even if action was not. The Mayor's office marked it to forward to Chief Short,...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...nephew took me to his gravesite where I saw his name spelled "Rosco Halcomb" on his tombstone. In his letters to John Cohen, Halcomb would also spell his name "Roscoe"...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...the fringes of the Edwight Mountaintop Removal site, Raleigh County, West Virgina, 2008. In the Appalachian coalfields, the majority of land is owned by corporate interests based outside of the...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...that preceded it, through a motorcade stopping at sites of memory. Simultaneously, about 350 pickup trucks, cars, and motorcycles, most of them sporting the Confederate battle flag, participated in a...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...American bohemia. Yet Athens kids built the first important small-town American music scene and the key early site of what would become alternative or indie culture. We had grown up...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...one of many non-profit groups that will be affected. In Georgia, the COVID state of emergency officially ended in May 2022, even as it remained in place at the national...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...who can be seen clearly and what or who might be made cloudy. We find this early thinking replicated from 1908 through the official Homophile years of activism beginning in...