Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...when I was offered a job in Louisiana, I dredged up enough of the memory to consider that I was going someplace a little terrifying—a little exotic. I confess I...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...in the background. Doraville, Georgia. Photo by Mary Odem, 2000 The Misión Católica de Nuestra Señora de las Américas. Doraville, Georgia. Photo by Mary Odem, 2000 ...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...was not part of my small-town southern literary DNA. It was the town's literary hub, a thriving book scene that included dozens of serious writers and two presses. It was...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...left Emory to work as a technical product manager in digital media for Turner Broadcasting in 2010. Roundtable participants (top left to bottom right): Frankie Abbott, Mary Battle, Katie Rawson,...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Guatemala. And while men still make up the majority of Maya migrants, a growing number of women and children have joined husbands, fathers, and brothers in Georgia, resulting in a...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...one level examine the self-medication many queer people deploy (drugs/alcohol) to cope with the world around them. Each door in your Placebo Triptych, for example, features a different substance, geltine...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...were living in a changed and changing world, yet the adults around us seemed to be in denial, clinging to old ideas about life and work and community. The most...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...in that power in the postwar years. Small numbers also say little to nothing about how acceptance took root across lines of race, class, and other factors, and whether it...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...doesn't replay all the blues clichés. There is a little snippet of blues, but there is also composed acoustic music. And the soundtracks that Jheri has going in the background,...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...between large numbers of people who would otherwise have little reason to cohere into a national "community" or continue to participate in one.107Raymond Haberski, "War and American Thought: Finding a...