Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...marry and raise their family in rural Caroline County, Virginia. In the 2016 cinematic dramatization, Loving, writer-director Jeff Nichols best exemplifies this simplicity neither through dramatic courtroom scenes nor in...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...number of mothers, fathers, uncles, and aunts to send children to live in the United States. The women and men who placed their children within US slaveholding households acted in ways...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...desire and offered a place of female bonding, its idealization by gay civilians negated the reality of gay WACs who had to navigate the space. While a place of sociality,...
Religion and the US South
...This happened in the South also in places like New Orleans and Savannah, but in most places the rural nature of southern life gave a peculiar character to the Catholic...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...can't talk about,” says David Lee. “There's another place that we go when we're singing, and I don't know how to get to that place, except to go there by...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...to before the exploitation of the coal seams. People often ask, how could this happen? How could one of the most minerally rich places be populated by some of the...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...the government bodies charged with mitigating the consequences of its products' various uses. As these conversations took place, DDT acquired a layered symbolism: it remained a wartime miracle to most,...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...York numbered approximately eight-hundred-thousand residents. Atlanta, by comparision, had a population of just above nine-thousand residents, making it the ninety-ninth largest city in America behind Hoboken, New Jersey; Columbus, Georgia;...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...the place where you live, and then to make choices to enhance that place. But bioregionalism was not merely a set of ideas in Port Townsend. It was manifested in...