Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Wayne Curtis, "Houses of the Future," The Atlantic, November 2009. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/11/houses-of-the-future/7708/ New Orleans’ community-centric Creole and creolized cultural expressions have moved increasingly to the center of local public discourse in...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
Bransford: Before we talk about An Unflinching Look: Elegy for Wetlands, can you talk about your personal history with the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge? And then describe the Refuge in...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...and colleges; and even social service and civic reform. Similar “deviations” characterize the second symbol of South Asian modernity I have mentioned: understandings of the fundamental unit of domestic life....
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...earlier cemetery grounds to create Rock Creek Parkway and an adjacent horse riding trail. The grounds are now under the authority of the National Park Service. Site map of Female...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the sacred fires that centered each town in the eighteenth century to engagement with the federal government's so-called "civilization" policy in the early nineteenth century, to the valorization of blood...
How I Shed My Skin
...the premise" (79). Though Grimsley remembers hearing these jokes in many places—"at a country store or a service station, places where men talked to other men" (79)—he recalls local churches...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...own goals, but runs into a problem with Child Protective Services that distracts him from being able to implement whatever kind of hazy plan this very young person, 25-ish, is...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...Mitchell's apartment and the building's history, an example of the original scholarship encouraged by the collaborative publication. Emory University's Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) is hosting a new website to...
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
Presentation Question & Answer Session About the Speaker Dr. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in American Studies from the...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
"The Nation and the Negro," The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, February, 2013. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. "The Nation and the Negro"...