Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...to culture, race, ethnicity, labor, and migration. Her current book project, “Mexican Atlanta: Migrant Place-Making in the Latinx South,” traces the history of Metro Atlanta’s ethnic Mexican community formation and...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Georgia's prisons, Georgia, November 3, 1940. Copyright Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Courtesy of Georgia State University Library, Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives, digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/611/rec/53. Turning to the brutality...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...that the city's residents constructed their own mental geographies based on the city's soundscapes. Domestic help boarding streetcar, Atlanta, Georgia, ca. May 1939. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...eluded me. I returned to Atlanta that fall with a small portfolio of line drawings of faces that I reworked into a series of prints during an artist residency at...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of American Art. Magee's work also has been exhibited in the Museum of Arts and Design, the Atlanta History Museum, the National Art Gallery of the Republic of Namibia, the...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...convention in Atlanta, but I thought that I had better find and talk to Victor Montejo before I went to his country. At the Atlanta meetings, I didn't find him...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...in whole or in part, in The Habit of Being, Ed. Sally Fitzgerald, 1979. Betty Hester, a native of Atlanta who worked as a secretary and office clerk when she...
Single Centers of Creation?
Essay Detail from Nancy Lowe, Source, Species Icons exhibit, Schatten Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009. Introduction In this sampling from ORIGIN, a collaborative exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...Texas. The White book is used in some singings in east Atlanta and northwest Georgia (Cobb 1989, 6-7). Map of Cooper Book Usage Map of White Book Usage The Southern...