Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
Women's Space, Queer Space: Communes, Landykes, and Queer Contact Zones in the Lesbian Feminist South The middle-aged man sitting in the row in front of me shoved his wife's arm...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...numbers, vetting projects, and trading horses in an effort that to longtime observers must have seemed a fool's errand. Competition, not collaboration, had long characterized metropolitan relationships and it wasn't...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
Introduction Letcher County Judge, Carroll Smith, visits with local resident loading house coal. Letcher County, KY, 2005. Taking pictures in conjunction with Volunteers In Service To America (1968-1970), then continuing...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...Regional boycotts, in 1952, of service stations and restrooms refusing to serve Black people were organized in Mound Bayou.3Peter Brown, "Strike City, Mississippi," Anarchy 7, no. 2 (1967): 33–37. And,...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Splenetic Disposition." Richardson's congregation, he says, refused to allow him to introduce Watts's hymns or the Lord's Prayer in services, but he used both in his family devotions "to the...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...such public recognition of their services to the community is essential to raising public and private funds to support their services. I'm convinced that producing and presenting exhibitions, concerts, theater...
Birth Right
...Midwives can provide services in the home at a fraction of the cost of a low-risk hospital birth. A study on the costs of maternity services in 2000 found that...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What...
The US South in Global Contexts
Part 2: Dr. Marshall Eakin "Origins of the Old South" Part 3: Dr. Natalie Ring "Encountering the Problem South in the Late Nineteenth Century" Part 4: Dr. Tara McPherson "Wal-Mart...