Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...user Gilbert Sopakuwa. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. González Melo: I remember that in the early 2000s, when I was walking through Old Havana at night towards my house,...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...LICKER OF THE WHIP HAND, THE 'HOUSE NIGGER' . . . THE RACISTS' DARLING," "THE ARCH REACTIONARY," and "THE 24-KARAT BITCH." The latter insult Kennedy attributes to Alan Lomax, quoting...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...if publication is refused. This exhibition of unashamed aggression on the part of the "respectable" must give us pause. The threat of open violence, accompanied by the use of lower...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...embarrassed that my photographs offered no tangible benefits in a place that seemed to value useful things that aided survival: firewood, bean seeds, a cut of cloth. Then, as I...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...make a powerful argument for more sustainable floodplain use, claiming that "[w]e have wasted more than a century pursuing a foolish idea: the floodless floodplain." Now "[i]t's time to try...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...in the corner of the room, making small talk in Cajun French even though my "project" tries to avoid nativist ideologies about Louisiana culture.2For instance, the ideologies that promote a...
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...