Ossabaw Island Flyover
...Irma (2017). Hurricane Matthew, in particular, uprooted many of the older live oaks on the island and otherwise dramatically altered its landscape. Although Ossabaw is often labeled as "pristine," humans...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...structure of most ads is uniform, some offer deeper insight into the global system of slavery. This 1775 ad from Wilmington, for example, details the escape of a slave named Quamino...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...city jurisdictions may vary in the degree to which race dominates law and custom. This research guide focuses on an urban landscape in the South, where a particular set of...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...to end segregation—before the fiftieth anniversary of the bus burning occurs in 2011. A racially violent past is best addressed not by erasing its traces on the landscape, but by...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...has transformed the social, cultural, and economic landscape of the US South since the late 1980s. Mexicans make up approximately 60 percent of the Latino population in the South; Central...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
Introduction Mary E. Frederickson, Tending an early twentieth century Draper loom made in Massachusetts for use in mills across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama, Margilan, Uzbekistan, 2006. I heard the...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...the Placebo pieces represent the “cyclical futility of trying to escape the shame of being gay,” and the text in Daily in particular is based upon the journal of a...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...South Part 7: Fostering integration and homeland ties within Latino Catholic spaces Part 8: The transformation of the religious landscape. *Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta was sponsored by...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...its escape from secondary education. As all of those in our noble profession know, even the most starry-eyed believer in the power of education sometimes loses control of the classroom,...
Congregation
Congregation https://vimeo.com/134849755 Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Congregation," 2010. View poem text here. National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast About Natasha Trethwey...