Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...Company dating to ca. 1860.2This passbook is housed in the African American Miscellaneous Collection in Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Passbooks were used during...
Local Color
...its core texts embody. Local color fiction stresses isolation and otherness, but also makes, however uneasily, a case for the nation's ability to reconcile and accept divergent regional identities. Local...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Facebook, accessed March 8, 2011, https://www.facebook.com/groups/110889371183/ and the Facebook wall, accessed March 8, 2011, http://facebook.com/. The first instance of pan-European participation in a Sacred Harp convention, the Ireland Convention has...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...been more strongly connected to the rest of the book. Although the “Sunbelt” of the book’s title is offered as a unifying concept, it is neither defined nor explained, nor...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...Cuban Development," in Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance (Oakland, CA: Food First Books, 2002), 280. Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Fallow, newly plowed, and re-growing sugarcane fields, east of Trinidad, Cuba, 2010....
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...Change in these latitudes has often been more of the same. Which is why this WPA guidebook deserves placement in the ranks of the permanently useful. You can still follow...
The Black Belt
...photographs from 1914 US Geological Survey “Cretaceous Deposits of the Eastern Gulf Region,” Selma, Alabama, ca. 1914. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in the...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...somewhat uneven book, law professors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer combine environmental and legal history in their examination of the relationship between human action and disaster in the...