The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...American Landscape History's "Designing the American Park" series, a collection devoted to exploring aspects of North American park history which, as series editor Ethan Carr explains in the preface, "remain...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
Review It is a central contradiction of contemporary life that Americans have learned to coexist with mechanisms of human extinction.1The United States currently maintains an arsenal of 4,760 nuclear weapons,...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...book, and there was a section in the back of the index called "Most Recent American Writers" or "Young American Writers," something like that. And the youngest writer in that...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...cost of housing and safer neighborhoods that the South seemed to offer.12Mary Odem, “Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigration to Atlanta,” Southern Spaces, May 19, 2006, https://southernspaces.org/2006/global-lives-local-struggles-latin-american-immigrants-atlanta; Odem and...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Georgia Archives. Colson's crusade against DDT began in 1945, the same year the pesticide emerged from the Second World War as an American miracle. First synthesized by an Austrian chemist...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...pleasures of outdoor leisure. An invisible line along Central had already divided the city into north (white) and south (African American) sides. African Americans moved to St. Petersburg in search...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). Rennie Collection, Vancouver. Image © Dawoud Bey. Right, Open Window, from the series In This Here Place, 2019, Gelatin Silver Print by Dawoud Bey (American,...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...on similar issues. to Kara Walker's cut-paper silhouette art in her 2007–2008 exhibit "American Primitives."28On "American Primitives," see Grace Elizabeth Hale's "A Horrible, Beautiful Beast," Southern Spaces, March 6, 2008,...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...meaningful continuities. William Faulkner, for example, influenced iconic Caribbean writers Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant and also made a pronounced impact on South American writer Gabriel García Márquez.1Valérie Loichot, Orphan...
Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...