Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
Introduction Map of Main Indian Removal Routes from James W. Clay, Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989). On May 28, 1830 America’s long-standing policy...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...go out and photograph. Along the beach and up the lagoons the devastation was severe. One late afternoon I was photographing in the Grand Lagoon subdivision when a woman in...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...last shadows, as the people thin, I see a dark woman humming. It could be 1945, or it could be today. She’s headed home, humming some songs she thinks I...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
Essay No Southerner by origin, Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. "As I am an ardent Californian," she has Alice B. Toklas say in The Autobiography, "and as she...
A Mess of Poke
.... . salad . . . ungh. So growls Tony Joe White in his 1969 hit, "Polk Salad Annie," about a notorious woman and a ubiquitous weed. Pokeweed, or poke...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...established in the north suburbs since the 1990s. Yet many suburban South Asian Muslims still have strong ties with Al-Farooq as "the first masjid," as one Indian woman described it,...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...past two years has played the other murdered woman, the pregnant Dorothy Dorsey, explains that she does this to honor the memory of her own son, who was slain on...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...the United States, rose to address the descendants. He wore a plain black business suit and Roman clerical collar. With an air of earnestness, he spoke slowly, like a pastor...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...her poetic creation. Poetry—poiesis as act of making—relays a faulty even criminal, law" (204). Top, The Lost Correspondent, and Bottom, Woman Praying, by Jason deCaires Taylor at Molinere Bay Underwater...