Birth Right
Birth Right: Video and Essay Birth Right. A short video by Neeta Kirpalani and Emily Jackson, 2008. Midwifery is controversial in Alabama, both legislatively and in debates about women's health...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...of it—Cumberland, Jekyll, St. Simons, Sapelo, and St. Catherines—Ossabaw is a composite island, in which sediments from Pleistocene and Holocene shorelines are directly adjacent or superimposed. However, sediments of the...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...powerful addition to any advanced course in environmental history as well as in literature. Superlatives fail to describe David W. Blight's biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018), a rich...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
Introduction Playwright Abel González Melo was born in 1980 in Havana, Cuba, the year the Mariel Boatlift saw approximately 125,000 people flee his country, an event he dramatizes in his...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...'Airs,'" writes Simpson, "I have gathered such as are popular, and extensively known. Many superstitious persons, and perhaps many good conscientious, well-meaning Christians, will denounce and reject the work on...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...amplifying the superimposition of paint with a string of nautical flags and a layer of shadowy oars painted inside the plexiglass that forms both a lid and a window for...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Food Blockade. The county board of supervisors’ decision to pull out of the federal surplus commodities program, a major food source for Black sharecroppers and farm workers, further spurred food...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...exclusively southern phenomenon. The South became the demonized geography against which Kansans gauged their virtue and measured their superiority. When racist violence appeared, white Kansans usually considered it to be...
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