St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Highway A1A. A central public plaza was part of the colonial city plan, in accordance with King Phillip II's Spanish Royal Ordinance of 1573 mandating an official plan for all...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...social Darwinism and racial degeneration.28Abraham L. Wolbarst, "The Venereal Diseases: A Menace to the National Welfare," Medical Review 62 (1913): 327–80. Reformers clamored for an attack on prostitution, artists luridly...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Creek in Adams County plotted insurrection, building upon neighborhood solidarities, yet constrained by the limits of this social terrain. Slave Neighborhoods along Second Creek (large version) Plotters worked their neighborhood...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...region with lower percentages of racial and class-based diversity. Desegregating residential neighborhoods is central to the goal of educational integration, which has suffered setbacks in recent years. There is intense and...
Fall Creek
As though shedding an old skin, Fall Creek slips free from fall's weight, clots of leaves blackening snags, back of pool where years ago local lore claims clothes were shed...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...year, changing approval rates, the annual total cost of claims, and, for some years, reports from the administering federal agency. See, for example, Social Security Administration, Annual Statistical Supplement to...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Festival in Athens, the Canadian Folk Festival, and the Alabama Folk Festival in Montgomery. These days Bryant plays mainly at home, with an occasional show in Columbus or Atlanta. To...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...heavily scripted pieces, this video also provides the most autobiographical representation of what Louisiana "means" to its videographers. It also makes use of interviews and common cultural objects or motifs...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Florida, May 15, 2010. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user inazakira. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. The author alongside Tennessee Williams, Gay and Lesbian Visitor's Center, Key West, Florida, March...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...cultural minefield of cliché and hackneyed musical scores and visual representations that we've all worked to undo and deconstruct. Also hovering over the film, not directly addressed, are the drag...