Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Slave Trade (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013); Whitney Nell Stuart and John Garrison Marks, eds., Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018);...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...House Museum.1Miriam Denard, phone interview with author, January 15th, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author Donnie sings in the courtyard, Atlanta, Georgia, July 12, 2015. Photograph by Clint Fluker. Courtesy of...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...mother’s hometown of Macon, Georgia, to live with family until he left, after graduating from high school, at age seventeen. He enrolled as an undergraduate at Bennington College, leaving in...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...vision of Louisiana in the documentary classic Louisiana Story. The making of that Louisiana story follows Flaherty's standard format. He created "narrative documentaries," what we might call today "docudramas." But...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...first came to the coalfields during the war on poverty was a lean, gaunt, skinny individual. Today obesity is a major issue in the coalfields. Lifestyle changes, even the mechanization...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...nothing to promote political and economic change. In July 2010 Menendez took the Senate floor to oppose an easing of travel restrictions, remarking that more opportunities for US citizens to...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...New York University Press, 1997): 241–284. Elizabeth Anderson contributed the epilogue to this updated version. Photographer unknown, Charis Books and More, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006. During the 1970s, members of a...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...of what was then called “college radio” to name the best early 1980s band from Athens, Georgia. Many folks will insist on the most famous band to emerge from this...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...create new memories based on Atlanta's LGBTQ past. Watch video of Memory Flash courtesy of the G Channel. Map of John Q discursive memorial sites, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010. Printable version....
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...people of color, and women. The extreme inequality in these states reflects a white southern legacy of a government/elite/corporate alliance that promoted slavery and the plantation system; post-slavery agricultural peonage;...