Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...related to day labor with the greatest proportion of fatalities were construction (first place) with eighteen percent and manufacturing at fifteen percent (third place). The occupation of day laborers had...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...connection over the telephone with a Middleton Place senior staff member, she decided to transfer it to the Middleton Place historic house museum near Charleston.16"Slave child torn from mom filled...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...a place," it does not—in other words, naming a place does not necessarily effectually "place" the place. Naming places or trying to name them is perhaps an inevitable practice on...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...simply, these poets represent race as emplaced experience, as a phenomenon "ineluctably place-bound."6Edward S. Casey, "How to Get From Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time: Phenomenological Prolegomena,"...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...up pretty rough and a lot of them does the best they can do and they take it as if you take the worst you can find to make a...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Watson and Carrie Matthews, 23-38 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005). As new immigrants seek a “usable past” within which to place and make sense of their experiences, they...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...transcend place, S-Town traps McLemore hopelessly and eternally in the place that he calls Shittown, Alabama. Although Reed ends the podcast with the story of McLemore's birth, S-Town buries him...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...older conception of place than the "anti-essentialist construction" of place defined and claimed by cultural geographers.6Doreen Massey, Space, Place and Gender (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994), 121. But Massey's take on...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Bailey K. Ashford immortalized his first hookworm patients in a photograph. The caption reads: "Photograph of a number of natives of Puerto Rico, showing pernicious anemia due to Ankylostoma duodenale."...