Birth Right
...professionals regarding the benefits and services of midwives provided the impetus for the video. In an effort to understand the roles of midwives in maternal and child health, the filmmakers...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...states. Gerald Ford of Michigan is the outlier, but he was never elected, only appointed. The prominence of the Sunbelt in the last forty-four years reflected the historic geographical shift...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...NOLA Hip Hop Archive logo, 2012. Image courtesy of Holly Hobbs. The NOLA Hiphop Archive, which I founded in 2012, began as an effort to collect, document, and make publicly...
Negotiating Black Identities
...Prof. Lacy's book, Negotiating Black Identities (forthcoming from the University of California Press), examines how the Black middle class defines itself in relation to Whites, to the middle class, and...
Place, Time, and Memory
Place, Time, and Memory Part 2: Works that reveal the passage of time and nature upon buildings and landscapes Part 3: Origins and intentions ofChristenberry's “Klan Tableau,” the creation of “Dream Buildings,”...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...black people made a living for themselves and their families, Pruitt-Igoe was instead regarded as dangerous, impoverished, and ultimately beyond saving. Over forty years later, this perception reigned not only...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Edmund Pettus Bridge Brings Fame, Fortune, to Selma," Montgomery Advertiser, January 5, 1992. Binding memories to landscape, the bridge at Selma locates transitions from one time and space to another....
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...like Cincinnati and Louisville, came to resemble each other as both became hosts to diverse and transient populations that increasingly included African Americans, who often shuttled back and forth across...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...