Emma Walcott-Wilson

Scholar, teacher, enthusiast! Cultural & historical geographer. Heritage tourism, interpretive practices, aesthetics.

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Gravity is the soul of sit.

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LRT has a fantastic overview of the role of poor whites in the Southern social structure before and after the Civil War.

[schway lex. @Lexual__]

Poor White Loyalty to Wealthy Whites: A Thread

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Walking Confidently in the Wrong Direction: A Memoir

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@jpbrasher @MLKStreet @jannacaspersen https://t.co/F7itR5x0GE

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Great backstory episode! @jannacaspersen @MLKStreet https://t.co/RhYlZY1wIF

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Have Americans lost sight of the real MLK? This week, 50 years after his assassination, #BackStory reflects on the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. #MLK50 https://t.co/P2dNzXhNn0

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Mexicans were some of the first to reach the Calif. gold fields. In 1850, California’s legislature passed a miner’s tax of $20/day for foreigners, effectively shutting many Mexicans out of the mining industry. https://t.co/ZMUaQzGShu

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Dutch museum row reopens uneasy debate about colonial legacy https://t.co/oeiymsqv9W

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.@Matt_Cook @emmcognito" the fight to erect monuments and memorials to those enslaved – or who fought enslavement – has proved just as difficult as the battle to remove... Confederate symbols" Good piece on politics of Stono & Denmark Vesey slave uprisings https://t.co/4wyAYD70s8

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Growing disasters makes this an all too frequent tweet but still true #MexicoCity & #HurricaneMaria victims on minds of geographers @theAAG

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Best part of traveling to any conference ever has already happened and it is this cat

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Great panel post pres at #ICIM17 ! I look like a doofus but it was fun anyway.

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#ICIM17 is over, presentation done, museum day was number one

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.@theAAG The unraveling of a geography of Confederate memory. Where monuments coming down across USA w/ map https://t.co/pJzDgfgluU

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Appropriate measure of current events. Thanks, live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles musical. #totallyuncool

[Sarah @saraelizardbeth]

Thread. God bless you, @deray https://t.co/gzuTmYIVuu

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Back on twitter sorta. Many interesting important things to talk about but all I wanna talk about is cookie cat? 💁

[Derek Alderman @MLKStreet]

.@emmcognito @Matt_Cook Historic NC Stagville Juneteenth celebration provides history on slavery, emancipation https://t.co/nshwaVyLCG