How I Shed My Skin
...inferiority, castigating blacks as lazy, ugly, smelly, dirty, sloppy, unruly, faulty, sorry. Seemingly told in jest, they united whites around racist ideology. "When we laughed at the joke[s], we accepted...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Politics Identity and Place in a Global Southern City Proposals for papers, talks, multi-media presentations, or round-table discussions should be no more than 400 words. We welcome proposals on any...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...wheat production. Unlike tobacco or cotton, wheat required bursts of intense labor at harvest, followed by relative lulls in activity. In order to maximize their investments in year-round, bound labor,...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and in the Sir Elton John Photography Collection. Simone has also published two collections, On Common Ground: Photographs from the Crossroads of the New South...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...are not limited to): Population and Place Metropolitan Ecologies Transportation Education Proposals for papers, talks, or round-table discussions should be no more than 400 words. Proposals on any aspect of...
Mobile, Alabama images
Mobile, Alabama: Outdoor Table and Chair, Mobile, Alabama The building in the background is the twenty-eight-story Riverview Plaza Hotel. View from the USS Alabama A World War II battleship, the...
Old Elementary
...all but vagrant pigeons. The utter childlessness of the playground fronts it, lifeless swings, foot worn furrows beneath, once slick from use, almost closed over, a cicatrix of dandelions and...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Map National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map Cover Image...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...Imagine you are facing north from the main quadrangle of Emory University in Atlanta. Rising from the foreground of Emory's gray-pink marble halls and terra cotta roofs, shimmering against a...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...the past few thousand years, wraps around the southern and northeastern corners of the island. Ossabaw Island in the Sea Islands Watershed. Original map courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons...