Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...the stretch marks of ecology and ethnicity are easy to spot in the city’s public spaces, the same can’t be said of the politics of park design. They have to...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Lithonia, Georgia, October 23, 2003. VIPs sign cement during the foundation pouring ceremony at South DeKalb Medical Center for the first full-service hospital in south DeKalb. Photograph by HIP Incorporated...
Sea Changes in Personhood
..."revolutionary significance" (41). The space of the swamp, relegated to a space of wildness and savagery in colonial discourse, finds a place in the construction of national agency. Allewaert's argument...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...daughter and also contributed significantly to the support of his siblings. His earnings have enabled his two younger brothers to move to Guatemala City to continue their schooling. Additionally he...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...Paramount Records, Vol. 1 (1917–1932); and Chapter 7. The pivotal fifth verse, and one that would become a signature line in Hurston's repertoire—"I got a rainbow wrapped and tied around...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...Americas. Some half-million enslaved arrived at forty-one documented sites in the United States. At these arrival ports a significant portion of American history began. Relying principally upon information from Voyages:...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...quilts from this era which are made of repeated blocks, Narcissa's quilt was constructed in long strips of triangles, forming a zig-zag design. She used only two different fabrics —a...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...women quilted this top with close rows of stitches irregularly in "elbows," an angular variation of the more rounded "fan" quilting design. Fan quilting is one of the all-over designs...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...printed chintz — that is, the quilt was made from lengths of fabric featuring a factory-printed design of large floral wreaths. As a wedding gift, this quilt was symbolic rather...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...branches. Water level signs hang from the trees: 1919 1857 1913 1989 and on. A memory of what is no longer painful. From year to year the levels of the...