Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...powerful numbers like "South Carolina (Barnwell)," a blistering critique of the construction of the Savannah River nuclear plant in 1975, Scott-Heron directed his listeners' attention to new political battlefields and...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...2012, http://www.adammandelman.net/2012/06/01/borderlands. American Energy explains the Gulf Coast through another set of geographical dilemmas: between site and situation8See Peirce Lewis, New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape (Chicago: Center for...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...http://www.underwatersculpture.com/sculptures). However, while Taylor's sculptures' evolution with their coral environment conveys rejuvenation, Walker's art's alliance with the industrial site evokes degeneration. provoking a troubling confusion between human bodies, raw flesh,20For...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...became not just a means of getting from one side of the river to the other, but a site where a people crossed out of repressive racial territory and into...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...as the site of a resistant appropriation of the diaspora’s removal and as a site of repair. The piano keys appear in numerous other works, including Procession, but sheet music...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...year. This year we also added cumulative totals for pageviews and unique readers since 2008, when we began tracking visits to our site with Google Analytics. As a digital open...