Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
Introduction Herman J. Russell Home at 714 Shorter Terrace in the Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, 2015. In August 2015, the Collier Heights home of Herman J. Russell (1930–2014), African...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
Review In the acknowledgements for The Accidental City, Lawrence N. Powell remembers that, after Hurricane Katrina, pundits asked why New Orleans should be rebuilt, when its site was clearly untenable...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008). It was easy to get out; people did it all the time. With a day pass, you could catch a bus...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
Review "Lynching of Negroes is growing to be a southern pastime," declared the Reverend D. A. Graham of the A.M.E. church in a sermon preached in Indianapolis, Indiana, as part...
Visualizing Spatial History: The Example of Rio de Janeiro
Presentation Part 2: Frank provides an overview of the Stanford Spatial History Project Part 3: Frank discusses creating visualizations that evoke patterns and varieties of spatial mobility, consciousness, and power...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
Introduction: Theorists in Dialogue about Native American Literature, Hybridity, and Tribal Sovereignty Craig Womack: Each of the participants who joined me in the Emory discussion on April 22, 2011—Lisa Brooks,...
Inside Poor Monkey's
Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...