Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...States is the marimba and its music. In Guatemala, the marimba is a key symbol of indigenous identity and it continues to play an important role in community life for...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...and they couldn't catch me. I was in the army in Guatemala, so I had a compass. I took a train through Mexico. I swam across the Rio Grande. I...
Love and Death at Second-Line
..."It'll be easier at the vendor outside." He said, "No man, this is Papa Joe's place, buy it from him." I waved the bills over my head, Joe himself saw...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...Problem in Social Life (1908). Image is in public domain. A brief historical framing shapes how I think of the generative and troubling dimensions of digital square spaces in contemporary...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...the least thing he is interested in is a well-chosen word in English. Some people may think it odd to hear Lot’s wife referred to as "Old Lady Lot." Church...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...I got older and left West Virginia. I write very intuitively. When I'm doing early drafts I hear the story in my head or I hear sounds in my head...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...this discussion to one community. As I illustrate in the essay, this is a regional tradition found in both southeast Georgia and northeast Florida. I pay particular attention to factors...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...about all immigrants in Florida. We were just doing one town." I said, "If somebody had died in that story or if those police officers who came in had actually...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...pre-World War II South is large. Major works include Wilma Dykeman and James Stokely, Seeds of Southern Change: The Life of Will Alexander (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1962); Morton Sosna, In Search of...