Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...plants, sausage-manufacturing facilities, and more with DDT, all in a continued effort to eliminate the array of insects suspected of carrying infectious disease.16Communicable Disease Center Technical Development Division, Savannah, Georgia,...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...a simple three-part statement that argues for positive changes in the academic departments or programs that house these disciplines: An end to the actions that divide creative and critical/academic voices;...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
John McWilliams, Hampton Plantation, McClellanville, South Carolina, 1973. In the early 1970s, John was teaching photography at Georgia State University when we discovered McClellanville through Robert Frank’s photograph “Barber shop...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...sources illustrate the diversity, agroecological knowledge, and frugality inherent in the region’s subsistence traditions. Agricultural Biodiversity With its adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the 1992 Earth Summit in...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...locating, describing, mapping, and writing about alligator dens and gopher-tortoise burrows. The use of a drone enables a new way of studying the island's dynamic ecosystems and scouting locations difficult...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...to save his beloved Jack Russell terriers. We did our first video shoot with Gainey in the spring of 2010. At the outset, we didn't know what we were doing...
Birth Right
...care and a more personal birthing experience. As of 2009, the practice of direct entry midwifery was legal and regulated in twenty five states, "alegal" (that is, direct entry midwives...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...these discriminatory programs after World War II that the southern states rigorously adopted eugenic programs of disease and population control that disproportionally targeted African Americans.27Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults...