Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
Review Building on a rich literature that explores the spatial dimensions of US race relations and capital formation, Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours traces the histories of African American...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...white. African Americans and whites still congregate separately in the newly integrated Lake Meer, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia, June 12, 1963. Photograph by Ken Patterson. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...amid an evolving pandemic. Among the lengthier accounts are books by Nicholas Christakis, Scott Gottlieb, Michael Lewis, Andy Slavitt, and Lawrence Wright.11Nicholas A. Christakis, Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...Natasha Trethewey In these excerpts from an interview conducted in Atlanta, Georgia, on 30 August, 2008, Dan Albergotti talks with Natasha Trethewey about the new internet journal Waccamaw, his experiences growing...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...About the Author Emma Lirette, originally from Chauvin, Louisiana, lives outside Atlanta with her wife and two daughters. She works as a User Experience Researcher in social media and holds...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...Harvey Milk encouraged queers across the country to join him in paradise. Members and supporters of Atlanta's Gay Community parade down Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia, June 26, 1979. Photograph by...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Nicholas R. Spitzer adds that it is north of, and connected to, the Caribbean. Louisiana (reference map), Louisiana Acadian region, 2002. Map by US Geological Survey. Courtesy of the Perry-Casañeda...
The Liminal Site
...W. Soja, Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions (Madden, Massachussetts: Blackwell, 2000), 401. For the classic postmodern-geography treatment of Atlanta, see Charles Rutheiser, Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place...