On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...for the term pardo instead of the sullied one of mulato, [which was] popularly associated with licentiousness and ungovernability.”5Miguel A. Valerio, "The pardos’ triumph: The use of festival material culture for socioracial promotion...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...the Appalachian Trail preparing to cross US 23 at Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Contractor spreading mulch at the new Visitor Center on I-26 East, looking at Dale and...
Failed Memory Exercise
...And turned east, clattering toward the cotton gin, And returned empty, and faded beyond the track. Beyond those yards, where one day the sallow Dozers rolled and skinned back the...
The Black Belt
...Geologically, the region lies within the Gulf South's Coastal Plain in a crescent some twenty to twenty-five miles wide that stretches from eastern, south-central Alabama into northwestern Mississippi. The unusually...
Single Centers of Creation?
...Salamander Plethodon chattahoochee Chattahoochee Slimy Salamander Plethodon longicrus* Crevice Salamander [SC] Plethodon kentucki Cumberland Plateau Salamander Eurycea quadridigitata* Dwarf Salamander [SC] Pseudotriton montanus montanus Eastern Mud Salamander Plethodon cinereus Eastern...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...plants from the Holcombe Nursery in Decatur, five miles east of Atlanta. When he learned that the Holcombe family wanted to sell their property in 1980, he jumped at the...
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
...Reclaim." January 22, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/absence-i-know-i-wont-reclaim. Phillips, Patrick. "Watching the Surface for a Sign." April 14, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/watching-surface-sign. York, Jake Adam. "A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama." March 7, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/field-guide-northeast-alabama....
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...on Buford Highway. Chamblee, Georgia. Photo by Mary Odem, 2001 Two men at the Feast Day celebration in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Misión Católica. Doraville, Georgia. Photo...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...the figures. "At least it smells good," she says. But it only takes a few minutes to whiff the acrid stench of old sugar, a smell like that of meat...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...dynamically conjoining mythic pasts, seasonal cycles, and proximate experience.3Inge Nielsen, Cultic Theatres and Ritual Drama: A Study in Regional Development and Religious Interchange between East and West in Antiquity (Aarhus,...