Piedmont Blues
...one hundred miles wide. "Among the rolling hills, small farms, mills, and coal and railroad camps of the rural East Coast Piedmont, between Tidewater coast and the Appalachian Mountains of...
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...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...challenge to remain balanced and to flow well (53–4). By setting in motion a space where people flow, where rivers and mountains are alive, where the East is associated with...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...facilities that dotted the South, few were more nakedly unequal or more clearly designed to inscribe white supremacy and black inferiority onto the built and natural environment than public parks....
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...projects whose full intellectual import may not otherwise become recognized throughout the academy. In addition to providing a working model for collaborative, multi-modal scholarship, HyperCities' authors—particularly Presner—synthesize well-known theorizations of...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...where their titles have coincided with the names of European cities and countries where Sacred Harp singing now occurs. Singers such as Cath Saunt and Fynn Titford-Mock of Norwich in...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
...using the collection's browse function, I discovered a number of striking images of my neighborhood, including an unattributed photograph from the early twentieth century depicting a store called Red J....
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
..."A New Majority" documents that in four out of every five states, low-income students comprised 40 percent or more of all public schoolchildren. In 2013, 50 percent or more of...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...European styles of realism, Biggers's later work began to incorporate more stylized and symbolic elements drawn from African traditions, creating a hybrid style of realistic and abstract forms. Biggers also...