Birth Right
...of maternity care throughout the world. Many developed countries, including several in Western Europe, such as Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, use midwives as the primary birthing attendants...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...how antebellum southern physicians—white males all—used information about their patients to advance their own professional and sectional political agendas.1Sadly, Professor Weiner died before the book was completed. Mazie Hough, assistant...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...citizens, who viewed vaccination as evidence of their country's modernization. Challenges to US medical imperialism represented one of the least risky ways for Venustiano Carranza's government to gain support, especially after...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...also used up all of our film. It was a spectacular performance, but unfortunately could not be edited into the time constraints of a sixty-minute film. The next section underscores...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...case, is not his book's major concern. Although terrified of revolt, planters believed northerners would suppress any rebellion and refuse to allow the slaughter of white people. Proslavery ideologues, however,...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...your true motivations and priorities." Americans face an uncomfortable truth, she noted. History demanded "self-revelation" about the stories we accept without questioning, about the narratives we use without thinking. She...
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique The Marie-Séraphique Video Permissions Creative Commons license CC-BY-ND To inquire about use permissions for all or part of these videos, contact Southern Spaces at seditor@emory.edu....
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...vision. Often associated with rural and western spaces, coyotes have been migrating eastward for the past century and now occupy increasingly contested territory in major metropolitan areas, including Atlanta. A...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...the end of 2014. Partners N Crime, Eastover, New Orleans, June 15, 2012. Photograph by Holly Hobbs. Courtesy of Holly Hobbs. Countless members of New Orleans' creative communities lost their...
Piedmont Blues
Figure 2.1: The Piedmont. Map courtesy of James W. Clay and Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989.) Although the Piedmont plateau stretches from New...