Social Justice Environmentalism
...Studying Plant Disease, ca. 1930–1943, Tuskegee, Alabama. George Washington Carver, an agricultural scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor, sought to ease sharecroppers' dependence on cotton by researching and promoting alternative crops....
Image Credits
...truck, March 19, 2010. Photograph by Flickr user Michael Minter. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Curlers, December 26, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user Loren Kerns. Creative Commons license CC...
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique The Marie-Séraphique Video Permissions Creative Commons license CC-BY-ND To inquire about use permissions for all or part of these videos, contact Southern Spaces at seditor@emory.edu....
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...purchased from Benjamin Sprigg (a clerk in the US House of Representatives) for $475 the woman named Matilda, age thirty-two, and her female child Ann, age about six. It would appear that...
Congregation
...For Tamara Jones The house is in need of repair, but is— for now, she says—still hers. After the storm, she laid hands on what she could reclaim: the iron...
The Morning with Many Tongues
Readings Sean Hill reads the poem "Just as Sure." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "Nigger Street 1937." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "The State House Aflame 1833." Poem text....
Birth Right
...of maternity care throughout the world. Many developed countries, including several in Western Europe, such as Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, use midwives as the primary birthing attendants...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...South Carolina. And, less than one century later, multiethnic towns would again extend across the South. In Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South, Robin Beck uses an...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...whites entering into sacred spaces that evoke the Celestial Kingdom. Just as a relatively privileged house slave once stood as a welcoming presence at the door of the Big House...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...boys, Cash and Jewel, are almost killed trying to complete the voyage; her daughter, Dewey Dell, uses the trek as a chance to get into town to try to have...