Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...West Indies as crucible of syncretic creation and significant global influence, Island People succeeds tremendously. Wade in the Crosscurrents Together, Lowe and Jelly-Schapiro have written one important work: Calypso Magnolia-Island...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...closer to Little Vietnam. I remember walking during my teen years through the streets of East Lake Meadows with community members, holding signs with slogans against violence and drugs. A...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...more contemporary concerns about human health, and she "crystallized the recognition that humans were fundamentally altering the environment" (83). Just as significant as this rethinking of Silent Spring and pesticide...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...black children, enlargements of collectibles, which could be found at the front door of a white southern home or sugar plantation, signifying "Southern hospitality," carry bananas or food in baskets.15"Walker...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...made the doll out of nylon pantyhose. So in that year the doll and Martin’s shirt shared powerful affinities, both were articles of clothing stained with blood. Significantly, Jane uttered...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Unbridled commercialism, poor and unreliable public transportation, a deadly terrorist attack on Centennial Olympic Park: such significant failures shaped Samaranch's verdict that these Olympic Games were "most exceptional," but not...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...and courtesy of Pepe Murrieta. González Melo: El teatro lo hacemos entre todos, los artistas y el público. Basta recordar el origen griego de la palabra "teatro", que significa "mirar"....
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...of legislation, for example), but in and of themselves did not necessarily signify substantial and lasting change. The simplicity of my original questions faded as the labels of victory and...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...as Oxford College of Emory University—and directly past Bethlehem Baptist Church, the county's oldest African American house of worship. For two centuries the waterway has been a significant site of...
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...