Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...that which would rot away and be lost? Why was I being taught that any security I might ever have would be after I was dead? I was a child,...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...
Deep Ellum Blues
...the period, and not limited to black cemeteries). View of Stringtown, 1947, before the construction of Central Expressway. Central Expressway seemed to enshrine a new social geography as well. It...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...value. The deforestation that accompanied colonial farming practices allowed opossum populations to increase by driving away foxes, wolves, and other predators and by enabling grass and seed-eating mammals, such as...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...a Wal-Mart built on a strip mine bench, using each setting to highlight the ways in which commerce and consumption are transforming the mountain landscape. Donald R. Rasmussen says, "The...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...the doorway dressed in rough cotton. Each had a quid of tobacco in his mouth, each was barefooted. They stood in the doorway a minute or so, then waved good...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...as a way to come to terms with this volatile and disorderly geography (7). As a means to maximize his personal power and the safety of his Florida town, Apalachicole,...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1751–1840, http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/history/collection/RAS. Advertisement for a runaway slave, North Carolina Gazette, May 5, 1775. Courtesy of the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements database. While the...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...become? Shall he smash his skull against the paving stones? Shall he kill his torturer? Or do you believe the human heart can find a way to bear such misfortune?"...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...going to have way too much work for myself and the few part time people I had found, so I went to a local chicken plant and talked to the...