A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...black voters. Over the course of the next three years, the MARTA board invited its critics to the negotiating table and the system was reinvented as a genuine public service...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...in my own article, which came out during the same time period: Barbara Ellen Smith, "Black Lung: The Social Production of Disease," International Journal of Health Services 11, no. 3...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...1930. Brochure by Advertising Service Agency. Courtesy of Daniel A. Pollock. Kytle and Roberts inventory various iterations of the dominant slavery narrative and provide valuable details that include microhistories of...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers." Southern Spaces, December 21, 2007, https://southernspaces.org/2007/geographies-hope-and-despair-atlantas-african-american-latino-and-white-day-laborers. Frederickson, Mary E. "Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South." Southern Spaces, December...
Whiskey and Geography
...de Chastelleaux observed that it was the only drink served in the American backcountry.1David Hackett-Fischer, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 729. In...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...expanding to discuss medical science’s responsibility to queer subjects. Homosexuality was considered a mental disorder up until 1973, and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) didn’t officially rule reparative therapies as...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Cannot Do in a Time of Pandemic," Scientific American, February 2, 2021, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-science-can-and-cannot-do-in-a-time-of-pandemic/. Sports celebrities and other influencers joined in; some publicly declined vaccinations for spurious or unspoken reasons. In...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
Welcoming Comment from Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey, Welcoming Comment, 2014. About the Speaker Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer-Prize winning poet (Native Guard, Mariner Books, 2006) and former poet laureate of...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. She has published several books of poems, including: The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature (1985), and numerous essays, and coeditor of The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology...