Bodies and Souls
...Before Sister Manette took on the clinic, there had been no healthcare available in Jonestown for 15 years. Jonestown, Mississippi Welcome Sign, November 4, 2011. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user chillin662....
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...monolithic "South," interrogates historical geographies over time, and maps expressive cultural forms associated with place. We welcome submissions from scholars, photographers, journalists, and artists in such areas as geography; southern...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...the post, the men received some six hundred pounds of rice as well, surely a welcome relief.38See for example A. R. Hetzel payment to James W. Erwin, Oct. 20, 1837,...
Reckoning with Enslavement
Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...1980s when Latino racialization shifted from a provisional whiteness to a distinct marginalized group that, on the surface, received a warm welcome. Márquez brings important attention to Dalton, Georgia, an...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...whatever forested commons they can still find. The act is meant to promote this social ecology. By combining land and livelihood—by fostering possession against a history of dispossession—it would reconnect...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...the best slaves were those who were a blank slate capable of adopting, defending, promoting, and even proselytizing the religions and cultures of their enslaver. While it is possible to...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...contaminated dirt. Relying on small livestock and locally caught fish, promoted decades earlier as a progressive reform . . . ironically made them vulnerable to Monsanto's pollution as well. In circular...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
Big City Bird’s Eye View. Artistic rendering by Dawud Anyabwile. Courtesy of Dawud Anyabwile. Antonio Valor. Character drawing by Dawud Anybwile. Courtesy of Dawud Anyabwile. Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...gathered to hear three speakers representing a spectrum of professional backgrounds and perspectives. Chip Elliott, an animal trapper with over ten years of experience in the Atlanta metro area, promoted...