Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...similar influences of African American cultures across the borders of the southern United States" (4). Designating Louisiana as an "appendage of the French and Spanish West Indies," Thomas Marc Fiehrer...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...these American looms ended up there. Conquered by the Mongols in the eighth century and by Russia in the nineteenth, Uzbekistan became part of the Soviet Union in 1924 and...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Salt Creek, meanwhile, tells the classic Florida story of transformation and rapine. The waterway formerly known as "Salt Run" drains lower-lying land, never particularly suited for human habitation. Starting in...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Cherokee Nation in Georgia as Cherokee County. A bill the following year subdivided Cherokee County into nine additional counties. Approximately five hundred square miles of land bordering Alabama was designated...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...have pointed out how slave society was divided along lines of gender, between town and country, and African ethnicity. The human geography of rural neighborhoods demarcated another faultline. Slave society...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...movie houses, but these were often poorly equipped and maintained, and usually only screened first-run films after white theaters had shown them. Other forms of segregation included designated viewing times...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...rooms." As his creations garnered attention, he received commissions around the city. Although not formally trained in landscape design, Gainey, through self-study and experimentation, developed a distinctive style that combined...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...the clouds closed quietly around the moon as the thunder rumbled and the heavy drops began to fall, slowly at first, then irregularly, then increasing to a rhythmic rush of...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...crowd: a mixed humanity of international tourists, locals, white and black visitors, children, art students, and elderly couples. They enter running into the grotto to escape the storm and drafty...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...or modern conveniences or jobs behind for the seeming purity of rural areas, trading the modern for the "exotic," "abandoning the centers of capitalist development for some 'elsewhere' that keeps...