In Memory Hill Cemetery
...rod, the first for birth, second for life, and third for death in slavery — household slaves working for the important families of Georgia's old capital. When did the third...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...rights as US citizens. In an early example of non-violent protest that would characterize later civil rights efforts to desegregate the classroom, Mexican families withheld the names of their school-age...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...respectable families, basketball teams, fraternal organizations, and other notable African Americans. Thomas Allen Harris, director of the 2014 documentary Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...and families, cities and states, region and religion. In Southern Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1820–1920, Lee L. Willis has written a short but incisive look...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
...health programs for people with HIV and their friends, families, and caregivers. In this interview, Dr. Peel discusses his life as a gay man in Nashville, Tennessee, his move to...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...to either leave the state within a year or remain enslaved to be with her three children. Nancy’s story finds parallels in today’s Latin American migrants, who leave families behind...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...acceptable in modern Japan. The Burakumin are thought of as village or rural people who have inherited a caste condition that is deeply reviled and entrenched through their families' inherited...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Certainly, Bourbon Street's transformation had significant cultural, social, and political implications for the rest of New Orleans, particularly for the African Americans, ethnic whites, and working class families that could...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...of prescribed rules about what criticism should do. When they come together—for example, Lisa Brooks' telling of generations of families fishing the Missiquoi River, often gathered in recent times at...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...and making families — human geography uncovers some of the complexities of place-making among slaves on the ground. Scholars of human geography are interested in understanding how people turn space...