COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...multiple mistakes in its response, including its botched diagnostic testing roll out, guidance fiascos, and acquiescence to political pressures from the White House. The open questions that Lewis takes on are...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Black and Poor Americans records, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. SCLC argued that traditional principles and tactics of nonviolent direct action could be successfully brought to bear under any number...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...creatively examining real and imagined spaces and places to address questions of spatial justice. We provide a public, open access platform for work engaged in nuanced discussions of race, space,...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...work-in-progress that would benefit from open conversation. Please include audio-video requirements in your proposal. Please send proposal via email to disc@emory.edu by 5pm on February 15. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...moves literature away from loneliness. It proposes creation in a team and in direct contact with the spectator. Both questions are very attractive to me. The idea that writing never...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
Good-Bye to All That?
...two slots open for the county commission. One incumbent was a conservative activist whose sarcastic letters in the local newspaper attacking liberals and Democrats in general and Barack Obama in...