From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...the persistent spaces usually known in New Orleans as “back of town,” the haunts of runaway slaves, prostitutes, and smugglers. Plan de Nouvelle Orleans, 1722. From Library of Congress Map...
Scarecrow
"In a field I am the absence of field." — Mark Strand I. To Dorothy Everyone needs something to hang onto. It helps us keep the crows away. You...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...expressive art traditions. I am excited about the ways in which the archive may, in some small way, help to address these issues. There is also a wealth of potential...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...Wiese recounts how discrimination curbed the African American housing boom, leaving deep scars on the urban fabric Part 6: Dr. Wiese discusses how highway construction and urban renewal in the late...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...to see something less bound by our disciplines and imaginations. It is also a way to alternatively navigate the space of the anthropological field, here being Chauvin, Louisiana, a small...
Red Dirt
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Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...and three story buildings in the Bogside in Derry portrayed scenes of British troops terrorizing the neighborhood, hunger strikers wasting away, and violent protests. We toured a Catholic neighborhood in...
Gone With the Wind
...he would pray for his parents to pass over his sleep on their way to church, the door whining closed behind them. But all that would come later, after the...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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