A Conversation with Digital Historians
...survey, they had a discrete number of questions that they asked across different neighborhoods, they made a map of it—this was exactly what we’d do with structured data, and they’d...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...arrangements of the human sciences become much clearer once one appropriates the historical understandings given us by Michel Foucault and amplified by Sylvia Wynter, once we recognize that not only...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...places? Adina Hemley-Bronstein and Elandria Williams mapping community, STAY Summer Institute, High Rocks Camp, Hillsboro, West Virginia, Summer 2012. Photograph courtesy of the STAY Project. The answer is yes, but...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...amplifying the superimposition of paint with a string of nautical flags and a layer of shadowy oars painted inside the plexiglass that forms both a lid and a window for...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. A New Nature: A Review by Ellen Griffith Spears Cypress Swamp, Alligator Bayou, Louisiana, 1998. Photograph by Richard Misrach. Courtesy of...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...◊ ◊ ◊ If pension-record and archival testimony offers ample evidence of slaves creating neighborhoods through everyday social relations — contending with owners and other slaves, socializing, making crops...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...bibs, bibles. Sunday dinner. Roadside eats. Potato logs on a hot tray under a heat lamp. Lessons. Teachers. Strong women—mothers and daughters, activists and administrators—who hold it all together. It...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...amplify the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) contributors and colleagues. We will intensify our social media, CFP, and outreach efforts in seeking and encouraging BIPOC authors,...