The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...gendered construction as a caregiving angel.23Emily E. LB. Twarog, Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). In early media...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...desegregation.5Crenshaw, 376. Pre-Brown Map showing the location of Mableton, Georgia, 2012. Virginia Ward's people were "Indians from Black Hawk Hill," and they had owned property in Mableton for many years....
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...way America exerts power over other countries and exploits them. JAMES: Did you see similarities or connections between class inequalities or exploitation in West Virginia, and American Samoa as part...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Album, 1–2. In 1825, with the signing of the infamous Treaty of Indian Springs between the United States and the Creek Nation, the way was opened for the forced final...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...is a professor of practice in the department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University. His publications include Life Traces of the Georgia Coast (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013). Michael Page...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...by Spanish explorers and missionaries on the lands of the Payaya Indians in 1718, San Antonio de Béxar was capital of the Spanish and later Mexican colonial province called Tejas....
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
...Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997). Andra Gillespie is an associate professor of political science at Emory University. Gillespie, who studies racial and...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
Review In the years surrounding the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision, state legislatures as well as county and municipal governments in the US South hastily built new "colored"...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...The Mississippi River flows throughout The Accidental City. The river appealed to empire builders as an artery that could connect North America from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. New...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...violence in America. Map showing Salisbury, North Carolina, 2012. So many local or case studies of Jim Crow-era lynchings have been published during the past twenty years, that they now...