New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...also been highly uneven. Until Hurricane Katrina and the need for cheap immigrant labor to rebuild New Orleans, for instance, Louisiana had little Latino population growth. Within the historic “Black...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...the first African-Americans to matriculate at Oxford, holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Emory University. Ms. Williams has herself lectured to Emory students and faculty on numerous occasions. Let us...
And the Prize Goes to...
...Four of the seventeen participants were graduate students; the remaining were advanced undergraduates. Along with their interest in southern studies, they brought specializations in American studies, journalism, English, history, philosophy,...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Bailey K. Ashford immortalized his first hookworm patients in a photograph. The caption reads: "Photograph of a number of natives of Puerto Rico, showing pernicious anemia due to Ankylostoma duodenale."...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...as an undergraduate at Georgia State University. In a business writing class, we were generating mock resumes, cover letters, inter-office memos—that sort of thing. Our instructor, graduate student Brennan Collins,...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Delery-Edwards describes the Lounge as a cultural space that sought to insulate patrons from homophobic violence, what Vernon would imagine in a musical number, "The World Outside These Walls."11Max Vernon,...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...program elsewhere, I took that magical sense of possibility with me and used it to weather the perils of graduate school and the academic job market. My story was not...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...during the discussions, which I communicated to the graduate students, was that my own thinking and writing had developed rapidly in response to writings that Arnold and Elvira had produced....
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...good intentions. After several years of my teaching along this waterway, graduate students culled together a self-produced book called Salt Creek Journal. During an Earth Day celebration at Bartlett Park,...