Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...Monsanto acquired the Swann Chemical Company plant, located just west of Anniston, in 1935. Reproduced from Baptized in PCBs, 60. Courtesy of Ellen Spears. The concealment of such "toxic knowledge"...
New Orleans, Louisiana images
...Bourbon Street, French Quarter Strip joints and sex shows are among Bourbon Street's famous attractions. Tourists Posing for Pictures St. Louis Cathedral, at the head of Jackson Square, is in...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana images
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Dry Fountain and Old State Capitol Completed in 1850, this castle-like Gothic Revival structure served as Louisiana's capitol until 1932. Construction Trailer During the summer of...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...Asian immigrants settled near a handful of geographic centers along the West and East coasts and the Southwest of the United States, but in recent decades immigrants have increasingly gravitated...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...multi-part series appearing in papers across the country, including the Denver Post, the Washington Post, and the Atlanta Constitution, marked departures from this narrative, stressing the alienation and loneliness of...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...against "clumsy" and reductive concepts of social and cultural change and instead uses structure to link fifteenth and eighteenth century Native political economies (10). Although these structures were fundamentally altered,...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...(now Charleston, South Carolina) up the Savannah River through Augusta, past several Creek Indian towns, and ending in the Chickasaw towns of present-day north Mississippi and west Tennessee. Temporally, the...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, were formally excluded from the beach after the Army Corps of Engineers cleared the mangroves and laid down the miles-long strip of white sand along the Mississippi Gulf Coast....
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...below, Dotter speaks about some of these images. Earl Dotter Employment: Wal-Mart has become West Virginia's largest employer. That's a pretty surprising statistic in light of the impact the coal...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. While these stereotypical depictions of the region exist across a broad range of media, photography has a...