Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...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 video. Jason Francisco, Nature preserve,...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine, prepared by curator Carol Thompson and published by the High Museum of Art in partnership with DelMonico Books and Prestel, presents the show’s thirty-seven works,...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...(1897): 251–253. Hot Springs's selection as the site of the federal government's "model" VD clinic would not have surprised early twentieth-century Americans.10C.N. Myers, "Hot Springs and the Model Federal Venereal...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...of California Press, 1990), 67. Like other key thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, Sedgwick understood the "very specific crisis of definition" implicit in binary distinctions like gay/straight,...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...per year. In the 1960s and 1970s, television broadcasts spread white gospel music into US living rooms while Elvis Presley toured with gospel quartets. At each stage in southern gospel's...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...a nearby refinery and its pollution, focuses on the intertwining relationship between nature and industry in Petrochemical America. She also calls attention to a missing element in the book's stark...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...anyone feel safe. Band members turned uneven development—the collision between Athens as a small southern town and Athens as the home of a modern university and Athens as a peripheral...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...between 1994/95-2007/08. There were clear differences in growth by racial group and by district. As shown in Table 1, between 1994/95-2007/08 the number of white high schoolers in the six...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...From historians like myself, Maria Elena Martinez, Lon Kurashige, William Deverell, and Robin D.G. Kelley, to social scientists like Ruthie Gilmore, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Leland Saito, Manuel Pastor, Laura Pulido and...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...developed, financed, designed, and constructed by African Americans for African American residents.2See Betsy Riley, "Collier Heights awarded Local Historic district status," Atlanta Magazine, May 16, 2013, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/civilrights/collier-heights-awarded-local-historic-district-status/; U.S. Department of the...