Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...and debt, creating seemingly inescapable cycles of poverty. Among these dire systemic restrictions, food scarcity was also strategically deployed by white government officials in LeFlore County through the 1962–1963 Greenwood...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...camp, it severed John Yoshida's head from his body. John Howard, John Yoshida suicide site, Jerome, Arkansas, 2004. Resistance to oppression comprises a range of behaviors, from the seemingly smallest...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the two concepts. They suggest that in spite of diasporic indigenous persons' relationships to multiple places—a lost homeland, a current abode, a far-away site of work—and to multiple identities—clan, tribal,...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...family vacations included mandatory excursions to museums, libraries, and historical sites. To ensure that my little brother and I "enjoyed" cultural experiences of all stripes, we toured the Smithsonian in...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...Library continues to celebrate the launch of the Battle of Atlanta mobile tour website and commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle with a presentation and exhibit of materials on...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...http://www.underwatersculpture.com/sculptures). However, while Taylor's sculptures' evolution with their coral environment conveys rejuvenation, Walker's art's alliance with the industrial site evokes degeneration. provoking a troubling confusion between human bodies, raw flesh,20For...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...23 of Petrochemical America, his impressive collaboration with landscape architect Kate Orff. A site more common than plantation houses along the Louisiana River Road, a pipe rack is a collection...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...1946 lynching of four young African Americans at Moore’s Ford, near Monroe in Walton County, Georgia. Since 2005 hundreds of people have gathered at several sites in Walton County to...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...became not just a means of getting from one side of the river to the other, but a site where a people crossed out of repressive racial territory and into...