MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...Kong Mountains in West Africa.5See also Emmanuel Terray, "Grandeur Et Décadence Des Montagnes De Kong (Decline and Fall of the Kong Mountains)." Cahiers d'Études Africaines 26, no. 101, 102 (1986):...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Snyder and Jack B. Moore, Pioneer Commercial Photography: The Burgert Brothers, Tampa, Florida (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1992), 12. During the next four decades the firm stayed prosperous by continuing...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Cambridge University Press, 1981); Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984); Christine Stansell, City of...
How I Shed My Skin
...explained" (8) the unprecedented circumstances of judicial desegregation, speaking only in "coded, guarded" (10) language. Photograph of a young Jim Grimsley, age 11, Jones County, North Carolina, 1966. Courtesy of...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...and Spanish colonialism. The Tremé developed around Congo Square as one of the first neighborhoods of free people of color in the United States in the late eighteenth century.1For more...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Prize for his book Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985-2005. His eight other books include Elegy for the Southern Drawl a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and Transparent Gestures ,...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...disease outbreaks such as COVID-19. Bangladesh's health services are centralized and urban-centric.1There are only 1.1 doctors per 10,000 people in rural populations in Bangladesh, while there are 18.2 doctors per...
The Chesapeake Bay
...human systems and the close interaction between environmental shifts and human societal, economic, and even political change. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and its...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...City: Crucible of the Latina South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023), 10. A lady watches a woman rolling a cigar in a factory, Tampa, Florida, 1963. Photograph...