Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...ideology of "racial confraternity," such as José Martí's.15On nineteenth-century ideologies and practices of whitening in Latin America, George Reid Andrews, Los afroargentinos de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...and varieties grown and used and in the array of methods of preservation and consumption. Prior to the early twentieth century, the only methods of preservation consisted of salting (meats),...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...is a cultural production, a site whose significance lies in the multilayered interactions of tourists, tour providers, scientists and other visitors, and the body of cultural works about the cave...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...the 1895 Cotton States Exposition, the line took visitors to the fair site, a space now known as Piedmont Park. As the private Ponce de Leon Park changed, so did...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
..."to men of prominence, both inside and outside" of the state. Politicians gathered in anticipation of the official Democratic convention and, while eating opossum, pre-determined the roster of officials for...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...bereft: there is no term to describe the successful interface of natural and built environs. Outside cities, we have any number of categories for describing natural landscapes. The "wilderness" and...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...pop air, signal both renewal and reorientation from within the very wreckage of late modernity" (213). Sweet Air is a valiant attempt to understand the ways in which the forces...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...a compelling site of emotional connection, commemoration, and resistance. Finally, we speculate as to why persons unknown, on the night of Juneteenth, sought to attack this particular site. The Mount...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...France during World War I, and was frequently asked by French officials for her name and birthplace; she found watching them try to imagine how to write and spell "Allegheny,...