You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...eds. Emily Abel and Margaret K. Nelson (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), 40. Historically, Appalachian women had tended to the broken bodies of miners and industrial workers,...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...the center of Africa suggests the mapmakers conceived of the continent as a landmass encasing a giant body of water.3See Gari Ledyard, "The Kangnido: A Korean World Map, 1402." In...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...of Washington Press, 2012). Sergeants using a DDT sprayer, August 15, 1951. Photograph by Flickr user otisarchives4. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. The core of Spears's book centers on...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Food Power Politics, 142. Examining food access and equity shifts attention to the environmental and psychological vulnerabilities of Black bodies. Vegetable vendor leans against his work vehicle, Mound Bayou, MS,...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...bread made of musty pea-flour" (110). Ignominy as much as starvation precipitated surrender. Top, "Submarine Torpedo Boat H.L. Hunley, Dec. 6, 1863," Charleston, South Carolina, 1864. Oil on panel by Conrad Wise...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...white. African Americans and whites still congregate separately in the newly integrated Lake Meer, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia, June 12, 1963. Photograph by Ken Patterson. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...in any number of new temporal and spatial configurations" (54–55). While this observation is true of any map—as is the relationship between cartographic representation and a given culture's deepest ambitions...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...The implications of this trend are far-reaching. It indicates persisting economic hardship for a large number of families with school-age children, signaling that children who usually have the largest educational...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...are featured on both the Southern Spaces and MARBL blogs. John Biggers paints House of the Turtle, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, ca. 1990. Photo courtesy of John Biggers's Estate. John...