DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
Introduction DDT is good for me advertisement, Time, June 30, 1947. Scan by Flickr user Crossett Library. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Early in 1949, Dottie Colson wrote to...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...to appreciate smelly old books, discolored newspapers, and indecipherable manuscripts. I blame my parents—after all, they planted the seed that is now blossoming into full-blown archive fever. #DareToBe promotional materials,...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...repositories of Africana art, as places of historical significance in their own right, and as places and resources for Africana art making and creativity. Africana archives in the United States...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...works seem to have been unable to avoid using the form not only to promote their way of life but also to express their deep anxieties about it. Plantation Romances...
The Shenandoah Valley
...around 25 percent of the total population enslaved. There was significant sub-regional variation in the spread of slavery across the Valley; in Clarke County, for example, nearly half of the...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...for work. This was a fortunate turn of events for Francisco. Eva Villafañe, coordinator of the hiring hall, offered to place him on the sign-up sheet for day labor and...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...we have a protagonist who arrives in France on the day the armistice is signed and doesn't get to shoot anybody at all. Even though he is briefly involved in...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...which contains only one mixed-blood character, the significantly named Dilsey, avoids issues of race while promoting regeneration through capitalism. Known for its sentences of over eighty lines in search of...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...bounce, in particular, is showing signs of a full-blown revival.11Holly Hobbs and Alison Fensterstock, "New Orleans Hiphop and Bounce Storytelling, Preservation, and Place in Post-Katrina" (paper presented at the Music...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...in Chapter VI, their relationship may seem to others more like a "usership" than a "friendship" because of the men's codependencies.24Reed, "Chapter V," 49:09. McLemore gives Goodson money and other...