Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...
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...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...in Claudia Roth Pierpont, "Another Country," New Yorker, February 9, 2009, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/02/09/another-country. Or as Smith's contemporary Saeed Jones writes, "However many masks we invent and deploy, in the end, we cannot control...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...de Saúde or SUS) that invested (in-part) in the delivery of free public healthcare, including vaccinations to every Brazilian, codified by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988.10Jairnilson Paim, Claudia Travassos, Celia...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Claudia Leal, Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018); Oscar de la Torre, The People of the River:...
Encountering COVID
Michelle Fishburne and her dog Buddy outside of their RV. White Sands National Park, New Mexico. February 2021. Photograph courtesy of author. Southern Spaces: Oh, here's Michelle now. Are you...
Place, Time, and Memory
Place, Time, and Memory Part 2: Works that reveal the passage of time and nature upon buildings and landscapes Part 3: Origins and intentions ofChristenberry's “Klan Tableau,” the creation of “Dream Buildings,”...
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...
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...