1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Acadiana, women who are either whores or wives, fisherman roughing it out in raised camps, serial murdering pederasts with Satanic attitudes. Typical of the way Louisiana is coded in the...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
Introduction On January 15, 1909, US President-elect William Howard Taft attended a banquet at the Chamber of Commerce along with "the cream of Atlanta and the south's commercial factors, professional...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
..."a harbinger of mass culture" that helped bring about new codes of conduct as well as cross-racial relationships.3Kasson, 112. Kasson's history offers a relatively rosey view of amusement parks as...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...a brash of empty veins. Now only broadcast towers lance the night, their amber pulse the city's only torches, and below, where the terminal station blazed 10,000 lights in welcome,...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...as such, advocating too forcefully on behalf of birth control measures "might innocently start some unwelcome comment"—particularly in the South. On account of this, Wenger generally advised that the PHS...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...national parks today, many African Americans continue to feel unwelcome in such places. "[M]arking this racialized history can be potentially advantageous as a way of drawing new visitors. Most important,...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...see they are making us so welcome," one African American woman wryly remarked. "That's real Southern hospitality," her friend laughed. Two reenactors (one a Jewish man who has played a...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...public health and specific geographies—both real and imagined—in and across the US and global South. The journal welcomes projects relating to any time period or genre. Interdisciplinary frameworks, critical approaches...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...welcomed the ruling this week, suggesting that it helps set a significant precedent regarding the relationship between library intiatives and copyright laws. "This ruling is significant for all libraries and universities because...