Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...of me. Making History All I know of the Spanish-American War is what Virginia boys, kept safe at college, etched into the mortar with their pencils so that leaning against...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
...and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968 and the co-editor of a new scholarly edition of Arna Bontemps's 1939 novel Drums at Dusk and of the collection of essays...
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
Presentation Question & Answer Session About the Speaker Dr. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in American Studies from the...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...co-founded NEXUS, Atlanta’s first photography gallery, in 1973. Originally from Worcester, Massachusetts, Simone studied at the Rhode Island School of Design with modern American photography master Harry Callahan. Simone’s photos...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...twentieth century, the neighborhood was predominantly white working- and middle class, but as the housing stock aged in the late 1980s, more African American families gained access. Creekridge Park also...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...Historic American Buildings Survey HABS GA-2390-6. Sam Fowler, 1930 City of Atlanta quadrangle map, Druid Hills historic district, US 29, Atlanta,Georgia, 1987. Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey HABS...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...changes to the early voting schedule have altered the ways in which African American churches organize their early voting campaigns. According to Susan Saulny of The New York Times, these campaigns...
The Border South
...free black Americans in the South. Over 55,000 blacks in Virginia were free in 1860, over 80,000 in Maryland, including over 25,000 in the city of Baltimore. Most free blacks...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...hit African Americans especially hard. Widespread poverty for generations following Reconstruction exposed hundreds of thousands of poor, rural southerners to hookworm infection and pellagra. By the end of the nineteenth...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...differing reactions to the plague and to its stages is amazingly on target. I'm in a book club, and our current reading is Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. It's a...