Residues of Border Control
...on the US bank of the Rio Grande, Brownsville, Texas, 2008. Susan Harbage Page, Buried comb, Brownsville, Texas, 2010. Susan Harbage Page, Argyle sock, Brownsville, Texas, 2007. The photographs portray...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...people, these recurring transactions rendered migration the norm, not the exception. One former slave answered a question about where he had been raised: "everywhere."1Entry of Henry Clay, 22 Aug. 1871,...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...article about the sheriff in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 26 May 1968, p. 172. The African American narrative is different. Elders we have known recalled that when they were children...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...in Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society, ed. Daniel Lee Kleinman and Kelly Moore (New York: Routledge, 2014), 263–276. For example, studies of CDC's shambolic performance should include close...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...and Sotterley Plantation in Hollywood, Maryland. Eight locations are planning for ceremonies and/or marker installations: Boston (scheduled for August 23, 2015); Bristol, Rhode Island; Annapolis, Maryland (scheduled for February, 2015);...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...present.8Dipesh Chakrabarty, "The Climate of History: Four Theses," Critical Inquiry 35 no. 2, (Winter 2009): 212. The Anthropocene is a term coined in the 1980s and later popularized by the...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
Video and Essay Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs. A short film by Steve Bransford, 2010. Since early 2010, Steve Bransford has been working on a documentary video portrait...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...Act's Section 2 to make it more difficult to win a case challenging laws that restrict voting procedures.1 Steve Suitts, "Undoing the Voting Rights Act," Southern Spaces, July 12, 2021,...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...Burkholder, "Housing as a Human Right: Community Movement Builders Organize Against Gentrification," Georgia Voice, April 21, 2022, https://thegavoice.com/today-in-gay-atlanta/housing-as-a-human-right-community-movement-builders-organize-against-gentrification/; "Who are We?" Food4Lives, Accessed June 22, 2023, https://food4lives.org/about.html. Both organizations preceded...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Freedom Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003). For years, the women of SCLC were relegated to stereotypically “female” positions within the organization, serving mainly as secretaries and...