The US South and the 2008 Election
...American politics wasn't that difficult. The key was to figure out who hates whom — "That is the secret." This formula, which reached its apotheosis in the Rovean politics of...
The Place of Appalachia
...Appalachia," 57–68. For example, intermediary organizations like the Center for Participatory Change and the Southern Empowerment Project, the statewide Virginia Organizing, and the regional Appalachian Women's Alliance, although quite different...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...Library, Florida Studies Center Gallery, Image 167. The book's conceptualization of key components of Dixie Highway history also betrays the expansive title. Ingram affords scant attention to those who traveled...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...landscape architect himself, “the evolution of the designed landscapes of New Orleans is unlike any other within American landscape history….” (2). Douglas’s claims for uniqueness start with the town’s semi-aquatic...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...services such as food, shelter and drug treatment programs without providing job-readiness and employment placement programs result in only modest success at helping clients avoid re-incarceration. The lack of work...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) at Emory University has launched a self-guided mobile tour of Battle-related sites throughout the city, complete with maps, historical information, photos and videos,...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...and colleges; and even social service and civic reform. Similar “deviations” characterize the second symbol of South Asian modernity I have mentioned: understandings of the fundamental unit of domestic life....
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...service economy; music and cultural workers; sex workers; the Global South; African American labor history; Latino and migrant workers; gender and labor activism; and migration throughout the South. Please submit...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...2006) he explored the sensory dynamics of racialization in the American South. In The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Siege, he turns his attention to the Civil War. Smith...