The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
Introduction Map of Eastern Virginia, circa 1862 When in 1884 the New York, Philadelphia, and Norfolk Railroad, a subsidiary of the powerful Pennsylvania system, extended its line south through the...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
Introduction Geographic location is one characteristic of place fundamental to understanding the economic structure of Memphis and the city's role as a major distribution node in the global economy. Memphis...
The Place of Appalachia
...other. See Rend Smith, "Survival and Resistance: Appalshop's First 40 Years," National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, December 19, 2008, http://namac.org/node/6630. Such linkages—and there are far more—caution those who...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...a producer who founded the So So Def record label in 1992, represents another important node in the Atlanta rap network. Dupri grew up in the College Park area of...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Chicago Press, 2002); Tricia Henry, "Punk and Avant-Garde Art," Journal of Popular Culture 17, no. 4 (Spring 1984): 30. Another, early node of DIY culture in an unlikely place was...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...analysis to encompass Ybor City as a node within a borderlands where the Caribbean and US South meet and shape each other. These books model balancing of the multitude of...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...rendered either as an aestheticized form of subservience to whiteness, or as an irritating anti-colonial node to be eliminated. The Layout of the Conquered Maroon Village Called Boekoe, 1773. Map...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...and (2) the growing number of suburban mosques in neighborhoods in which both African Americans and South Asians live. Mosques stand out as the most vital nodes of Muslim networks...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...nodes and the associated immune response leads to high fever and the onset of chills. As the liver is compromised, jaundice sets in, giving the victim's skin the yellowish hue...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...writing, as well as sociopolitical analyses; it also generated connections between nodes of the movement throughout the United States, creating a feminist network with stronger organizing capabilities at local, state,...