Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...and her boyfriend/pimp Rosnay as they encounter the reality of selling their bodies in the effort to get out or escape, in this case, to the state of Nevada, where...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
Introduction Counties in the Appalachian Region. Map created by the Appalachian Regional Commission, October 8, 2008, arc.gov/images/appregion/AppalachianRegionCountiesMap.pdf. Of countless images over the last century, attempts to frame Appalachia's landscape and...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...of Miami's religious landscape that evolves at the crossroads of Catholic, Protestant, and Vodouist praxes. Crossing the Water, Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church, Little Haiti, Miami. Mural by Alex Jean...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...wanted to find more of these structures, which blend so effectively into the domestic landscape of lawn furniture and garden gnomes that if you aren't driving in the right direction...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...the Cherokee settlements in Georgia. Dozens of tributaries flow into these waterways, reshaping and sectioning the landscape. In the 1800s hundreds of Cherokees lived along both rivers and their tributaries,...
Naming Each Place
Readings Jericho Brown reads the poem "Like Father." Poem text Jericho Brown reads "Prayer of the Backhanded." Poem text Jericho Brown reads the poem "Scarecrow." Poem text Jericho Brown reads...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...Hill (used previously by the Spanish military for the transmission of communications), Armstrong figuratively dominates the landscape by sweeping his arms over the mountains. Later he inscribes relevant cartographical information...
Roadside Architecture
...photographs that follow are of portions of the humanly-made physical landscape in Mississippi and other parts of the deep South. More specifically, they focus on buildings in rural or, occasionally,...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...at large and to make a contribution to Atlanta's media landscape, so people who are interested in history and politics can have a new source for commentary, analysis and information,"...