Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...that Appalachian studies isn't interdisciplinary enough? For instance, urban planners, demographers, and ethnographers (among others) are needed to understand urban Appalachia, immigration, housing, and employment. To be fully interdisciplinary, Appalachian...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...to feminism to lesbian/gay/bisexual rights. For instance, Evans points out that white southern Protestantism provided a space for a radical critique of segregation in the 1950s and that in her...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...the modern Western nation-state and the material maps which instantiate it. Jefferson’s works provide the impetus to look backward, to ask how Black artists have thought about the history of...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...peoples, in such projects as the collection she co-edited with Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...music by C. Curtis (1820), words by Isaac Watts (1719), in McGraw et al., 298. Two instances of "thunder and lightning" between the tenor and treble parts in "Providence." Originally...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...scenes in Lumbeeland that evoke a film of a few years ago, Winter’s Bone. Lowery: Yeah. My God, yes. Winter’s Bone was in my mind. Southern Spaces: For instance, evoking...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...run away or to rebel, and they would bring additional value when they had babies—the so-called increase. Aunt Grace, for instance, gave birth to nine children, three of whom—Jacob, Jack,...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
Public Health Crossings Top, Colonel Bailey K. Ashford, ca. 1893. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, William H. Hunt, Governor of Puerto Rico, 1901–1904. Courtesy of...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
...encounter with The Lightning Field in New Mexico, an installation piece by renowned sculptor, Walter De Maria. Dowda describes the piece as a quarter-mile long desert field installed with nearly...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album (Nonesuch Records, 2005). It instantly became the soundtrack of recovery, blaring from radios as hammers rang, saws cut, and backhoes cleared throughout the city....