The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...lived in major metropolitan areas, small towns, and rural communities, I did not initially realize that we had moved to "the suburbs." In my mind, Atlanta was one big mass...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...African democracy and now fear land appropriation, as happened in Zimbabwe. One rancher told of six generations of family buried on land where he grazes thousands of livestock. Doubtless, his...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...hands, and ultimately, lives, in the plantation machinery of sugar-cane slavery and sugar processing as though in a sacrifice devoid of sacredness and rituals. French philosopher Claude-Adrien Helvetius proclaims in...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...an Emory professor, I will add that it is the first and foremost language of the campus where I teach. Creek people lived at Emory's exact location prior to the...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...Irma (2017). Hurricane Matthew, in particular, uprooted many of the older live oaks on the island and otherwise dramatically altered its landscape. Although Ossabaw is often labeled as "pristine," humans...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...that would feed and train them to become more self-sufficient—financially and politically—on the land where they lived, worked, and sought to thrive was a radical feat reshaping what freedom could...
Our Backward Revolution
...network of institutions, think tanks, and media mouthpieces that honed dual messages. The first: money corrupts the poor but elevates the moral character of the rich. Making the lives of...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...genres, etc. Radio and television stations and musicians playing live on the radio Material culture relating to musics of the US South and its regions Recording companies and recording studios...
At Cornwall Furnace
...the size of a liver. It's why Noble's men built it. Probably a product of the last blast. Too late. We can imagine the boys who mined and cut the...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...from his hair on the steps of local churches. Maybe it was the end of many letters, the last of hospital days, another sleight to make his hand come alive...