The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...the Water and Keeping the Faith dealing with African-derived religious culture of Haiti, "Vodou in the Magic City: Serving the Spirits across the Sea," demonstrates a broad understanding of religious...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...city's HIV "epidemic" to that of African countries. "Downtown Atlanta is as bad as Zimbabwe or Harare or Durban," says Dr. Carlos del Rio, co-director of Emory University's Center for...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...minority in India, in the mouths of political agitators, and on city walls, especially since the 1980s. "Those who wish to live in Hindustan will have to live like us...
Failed Memory Exercise
...I bump awake over the Atlantic Or wait in the plant-hung lobby of a hotel In Atlanta or Montreal and answer then, though I do not know the nature of...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...in this piece by Sommer Mathis writing in The Atlantic Cities, about the importance of cities in deciding the election. Metropolitan areas in the US South and elsewhere in the interior...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...tribute to New Orleans. In doing so, they identify Ellington's attempts at representing place, history, and culture in the city, his multi-genre approach, and his identity as a New Orleans...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...and, for some, as Harrison details towards the end of his book, between orthodox and "queer" identities. "Through southern gospel," he argues, "evangelicals develop the capacity to think and act...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...in the South and changing understandings of authenticity. Miller avoids the familiar approaches to the study of "southern music" in which scholars focus on a particular genre or kind of...
City Hall sleeps, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...