Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...“Liminal Legality”; James Smith,“Guatemala: Economic Migrants Replace Political Refugees” Migration Policy Institute, Migration Information Source (April 2006) http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/guatemala-economic-migrants-replace-political-refugees/. This first wave of migrants from war-torn Guatemala initially settled in Los...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Review Children at Play, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.002 by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation. A grandfather holds his small grandson while his three...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...ones from his typewriter, peppered with edits in blue and red ink. There was his legal correspondence, volumes and volumes of personal letters, military discharge papers, a high school diploma,...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...the mistranslations and miscommunications of Bible teachings. I grew up in a Southern Baptist setting so it was all about how preachers and pastors and Sunday school teachers would miscommunicate...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Sexuality during World War Two (New York: New York University Press, 2008); John Parascandola, Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008). We've fought...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
..."Welcome to American Samoa," Nu'Uuli, Eastern District, American Samoa, February 22, 2008. Photograph by Flickr user Ben Miller. Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 2.0. ANN: Yes, after Japan, I lived...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...great meditative work The Geographical History of America; or, The Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind. Recent scholarship has in its own way split "Gertrude Stein" in two:...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...document; but the processes and particularities of Latino migration are more complicated than aggregate statistics reveal. Latino migration includes documented and undocumented residents, US-born and foreign-born migrants, seasonal laborers who...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...November 4, 2005; Diana Welsh, "Naked City," Austin Chronicle, April 8, 2005; Ryan Robinson, "Income and Neighborhood Planning Areas," 2006, http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/demographics/downloads/income_npas_collection.pdf, accessed December 18, 2014. New Urbanism and New Urbanity...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...East for thirty-five million dollars. Following the discovery of contaminated soil from a misplaced sewer line, Ponce Park LLC purchased the City Hall East building in 2006 for thirty-three million...