Unquiet Emmett Till
Review Emmett Till continues to torment our imaginations. How could two (and almost certainly more) grown men, veterans, over six feet tall, see a fourteen year old kid as such...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...1970s and, writes Parcel and Taylor, "are central to the story of Wake County's dramatic fracturing in 2009" (18). A Republican majority elected to the school board immediately "set to...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...itself have begun confronting the more complex and difficult elements of the conservation movement's past. From its beginnings, conservationism echoed the nation's conflicts over race and inequality. Several prominent early...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...The Sacred Harp, 299. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss4Td-xSsAE&feature=youtu.be?rel=0&enablejsapi=1 [360-degree videos can only be viewed on a desktop computer or in the YouTube app on a mobile device. Click and drag within the window...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...connotes originality, belonging, and rootedness. In drawing together diaspora and indigeneity to compass the complexities and ambiguities of indigenous peoples' lives, scholars of indigenous diasporas have closed the gap between...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...Termite: A Novel (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009). Denise Giardina, The Unquiet Earth: A Novel (New York: Norton, 1992). Denise Giardina, Storming Heaven: A Novel (New York: Ballantine Pub....
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Deltans migrated to Memphis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Los Angeles—anywhere offering hope for a better life. Most counties in the Delta have lost more than half of their population in the last...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...New Orleans shotgun house, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2002. What some in the trade refer to as a "Cadillac finish," this decorative element normally found in a grand home or hotel...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...the construction of the Emory College Chapel. The Godfrey monument is carved in the form of an open Bible. Israel's grandson, J. P Godfrey, Jr., remarked, Mark Auslander, Israel Godfrey...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...travel? The 1895 discovery of smallpox among the African American settlers prompted the US State Department to to accept financial responsibility for the colonists' travel costs from Mexico. After their...