California Creek, North Carolina
...I-26 West, near mile 7, California Creek, NC 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. "I really can't comprehend the road or what it might look like years from now. I've...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...Continuing bitterness is not far from the surface. One man carried a sign, initials only — KAI. A Northern Ireland student told us that meant "Kill All Irish." The next...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...the clouds closed quietly around the moon as the thunder rumbled and the heavy drops began to fall, slowly at first, then irregularly, then increasing to a rhythmic rush of...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...years. But mostly, what I do is all about time and place and memory. So, for the next little bit, I would like to share some of my work from...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...black intellectualism continue as ornamental, overly moralistic, never quite fully valid aspects of the industry/government/education complex that we decorously name the American University. Accommodated in ever more brightly colored, if...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...1967, Lewis Family Papers, folder 139; Ray Reeve, memo to J.D. Lewis, July 7, 1967, Lewis Family Papers, folder 139. Despite Helms's backhanded reference, Pepsi's sponsorship offered Teenage Frolics a national brand...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...Knowles, Anne Kelly. "Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities." Southern Spaces, October 31, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/has-historical-gis-arrived-review-toward-spatial-humanities. Nesbit, Scott, Andrew J. Torget, and Robert K. Nelson. "A Conversation...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...family should be featured. The project held out hope for other reconciliations in fraught familial relationships that went back decades. It also seemed likely to reveal strongly held prejudices, as...
Dirty Little Story
Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...
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...