Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...and designed by Felix de Weldon—the sculptor famous for designing the Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington DC—the planned sculpture depicted a man, woman, and child reaching for a matrix...
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White-blossoming trees In front of the house In Sparta, Georgia, Where they together lived: Free woman of color (black, white, Cherokee), white male slaver, and their children who slept with...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...the San Antonio Express headline "Anti-American Riot Led by Red Haired Chief of Woman Mob" (184). Through the tensions exposed by the outbreak of typhus, and US public health officials' immediate...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...go out and photograph. Along the beach and up the lagoons the devastation was severe. One late afternoon I was photographing in the Grand Lagoon subdivision when a woman in...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...last shadows, as the people thin, I see a dark woman humming. It could be 1945, or it could be today. She’s headed home, humming some songs she thinks I...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
Essay No Southerner by origin, Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. "As I am an ardent Californian," she has Alice B. Toklas say in The Autobiography, "and as she...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...established in the north suburbs since the 1990s. Yet many suburban South Asian Muslims still have strong ties with Al-Farooq as "the first masjid," as one Indian woman described it,...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...the blues (previously not appropriate to her image as an urbane progressive soul singer) and to update classic blues woman Bessie Smith’s own tale of flooding, "Backwater Blues," from the...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...four legs and Converse. Drawn by Annette, my afternoon babysitter, a high school senior, a young black woman who chewed her gum only until the sugar ran out. This in...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...past two years has played the other murdered woman, the pregnant Dorothy Dorsey, explains that she does this to honor the memory of her own son, who was slain on...