On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...Village Called Boekoe, by Dutch cartographer Juriaan François de Friderici. It depicts the layout of Fort Boekoe, a fortified maroon settlement in what is today Suriname, in northern South America, that...
Trouble the Land: Crow and Molasses
...what had happened in Little Rock—so determined that that not happen in Atlanta. Of course, it was a tremendous number of people, well-meaning people, who said, "You cannot legislate morality."...
Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies
Today Southern Spaces published Edward A. Hatfield's essay "A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate," which surveys the challenges of transportation planning in the Atlanta metro region...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...of the social conservatism that survives in the subcontinent even in what appear at first sight as politically and intellectually enlightened circles. Another word on “beginnings”—moments that are always indistinct...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...hog and they'd take the livers and lights and all like that and make hash. They'd have a frolic and sell that hash to the people that came to dance.'"13Fussell,...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...that she didn't know very much about what to order for gay men or lesbians. Barbara felt they knew exactly what they were doing: they were providing books for people...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...to warn that dwelling on the modern defenders of the erstwhile slave society (touting "heritage not hate") or lingering on "explicit racial hierarchies that defined Jim Crow era" should not...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...GA-2390-10. Reverberations of Olmsted's designs are surfacing today in Druid Hills, a suburban space that exists as a borderland, literally "outside the city", but not quite in the country. Having...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...I do a Q & A people ask "What happened? What happened with the violence?" So, that is just a reality of that medium, giving up some depth in order...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...a song, believing that this is the best vantage point from which to apprehend what makes the music culture so moving to its participants. Composing Sacred Harp's Spatiality The fuging...