Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...I was the principal investigator for two of these (the MetaArchive and AmericanSouth), which brought in some six hundred thousand dollars to the Emory Libraries. These grants inaugurated a new...
The Liminal Site
...full Virginia sun, fail to water them enough, and watch them "mysteriously" die.8Apparently they were not alone. As the leading book on dogwoods puts it: "Take a typical understory plant...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...Willow, Deer (2004), Dog Road Woman(1997), and The Year of the Rat (1996). Dog Road Woman won the 1998 American Book Award. She has edited eight additional books and is the senior editor of Platte Valley...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...and includes items belonging to African American slaves and Native Americans, people involuntarily brought to Virginia and those who were decimated and pushed out. “No native Indian in Virginia is...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Latin American Immigration to Atlanta,” Southern Spaces, May 19, 2006, https://southernspaces.org/2006/global-lives-local-struggles-latin-american-immigrants-atlanta; Odem and Lacy, Latino Immigration and the Transformation of the U.S. South. return to top Una Segunda Ola de...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...the project director and editor-in-chief of Sounding Spirit, a research lab and publishing initiative promoting collaborative engagement with historical American songbooks. Karlsberg is an internationally recognized singer, teacher, composer, and songbook...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...pixels, but because once digital, any image exists as a link within a larger network.11Fred Ritchin, After Photography (New York: Norton, 2009), 70. Photography in a networked environment "is far...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...research on Latinx migration, settlement, and everyday experiences.1Raymond Mohl, “Globalization, Latinization, and the Nuevo New South,” Journal of American Ethnic History 22, no. 4 (2003): 31–66. While scholarly writing such...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...already marginalized African American community. Around a thousand people were displaced, dozens of businesses shuttered, and overall racial segregation was intensified as most African Americans resettled in areas further east...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...Rare Book Library recently acquired several independent black comic book series as part of a concerted effort to expand the African American periodicals collection. The three-volume trade paperback Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is...