Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...2012), 5. On the significance of the term "worldsense" to studies of African cultures, see Oyeronke Oyewumi, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (Minneapolis:...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...heavily scripted pieces, this video also provides the most autobiographical representation of what Louisiana "means" to its videographers. It also makes use of interviews and common cultural objects or motifs...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...victim’s age or condition, the presence or absence of children or elders, force of the soldier’s retaliation, severity of the victim’s injury, or observations by other soldiers or prisoners. In...
The Shenandoah Valley
...visitors. In local parlance to go "up the Valley" is to go south and to go "down the Valley" is to go north. In both cases the direction is relative...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...he chose to do so. Alternatively, vernacular artists like Patton and Presley followed an opposite trajectory. Born into poverty, they worked all their lives to escape the abject geographies of...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...downtown sidewalks. A new world seemed to be emerging out of our creativity, our music and art, and our politics, but also the way we understood ourselves and related to...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...where I'm from. I think it's bad for a writer to think that way—that 'okay, I'm Polish, I have to do this tribute to my area of Chicago' or wherever...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...two Algonquian-speaking Indians from the Chesapeake region back with them to England. One was Manteo, the son of the leader of the Croatoan polity, and the other was Wanchese, who...
The Carolina Piedmont
...to the service of the nascent information and technology age. Photographs and Video Photo and video essays from "From Raw Cotton to Cloth" Photo Essay by Pressly Hall Video Essay...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...lynchpins of the regional campaign. Only thirty-seven percent of metro voters supported the T-SPLOST, and it won majorities in only two jurisdictions, the cities of Atlanta and Decatur. The final...