Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Ala Wai canal, a lagoon off Waikiki that displaced wetlands used by island Natives for fishing and agriculture in Waikiki, see Sophie Cocke, "Ala Wai Canal: Hawaii's Biggest Mistake?," Honolulu...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...editorial staff with technical, editorial, and conceptual skills that will aid in the job market and expand career possibilities. Staff members also acquire technical skills—ranging from video, audio, and image...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...Association of Port Authorities ranks it as the nation's fifth largest port in terms of total tonnage.1Statistics on port volume available at American Association of Port Authorities, accessed March 4,...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...who ate the most bread suffered lasting neurological damage, but all survived.30Richard M. Garrett, "Toxicity of DDT for Man," Journal of the Medical Association of Alabama 17, no. 2 (1947):...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...for local enjoyment. The NBCFC illustrated how Black autonomy functions beyond the strictures of capitalistic profit. While land acquisition was central to NBCFC’s vision of food autonomy, so were labor...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...paramilitary acts of racial terror, and political and economic oppression of Black people. He deployed Lost Cause historical interpretations and perpetuated derogatory caricatures of Black and multiracial people that originated...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...of such landscapes can begin with archival records and progress to the physical landscapes. Lists in planter family papers reveal personal information about the enslavers and the enslaved. Plantation rice...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...post-apocalyptic industrial landscape. In many of these scenes,the members of Goodie Mob are joined by others, forming a multigenerational portrait of friends, colleagues, and family. These images of all-black social...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...depravity—what Jason Huettner has called "poverty porn."15Jason Huettner, "Capitalist Realism or Poverty Porn?" Hyperallergic, July 7, 2011, https://hyperallergic.com/28555/capitalist-realism-or-poverty-porn. See also Larry Vonalt, "The Dignity of Shelby Lee Adams's 'Disturbing' Family...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...refused to air any national programming that dealt with racial matters. National and local news programs often strove, nevertheless, for fairness but southern politicians worried about the visual power of...