Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...Nesbit, Scott. "Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia." Southern Spaces, July 19, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/scales-intimate-and-sprawling-slavery-emancipation-and-geography-marriage-virginia. Tarasawa, Beth. "New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...After buying rural routes from the Kerrville Bus Company in 2012, the discount travel company Megabus recently discontinued service to small towns in Texas' Southwest Area Regional Transit District, leaving...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...SC, Reprint Co, 1974 [1940]). Consequently, US African American religious cultures have rarely figured as prominently as their Caribbean and South American counterparts in conversations about African cultural continuities in...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...(1996) and Chroma: Photographs by Chip Simone (2011), printed in conjunction with his exhibit at Atlanta’s High Museum. When he moved from Manhattan to Atlanta in 1972, Simone initially took...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...successful Kickstarter campaign. Fiend at Inner Recess studio, New Orleans, Louisiana. Photograph by Holly Hobbs, 2014. Holly Hobbs at the Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014. Photograph by Jason...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...working conditions, and possibly a full-time position with a regular schedule and employment benefits, day laborers conducted their daily search for work by determining which employment strategy would most likely...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...and built differently, requiring cargoes to be stowed and unloaded by hand in between irregularly shaped bulkheads. This job had to be done quickly and carefully so as to maximize...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...and some Euro-Americans (especially Italians) have long played the music.12Personal communication, Robert O’Meally, 2004. Early jazz had mostly European instrumentation (excepting the African-descended banjo and in some sense the use...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...the living exponents, and certainly still the most active, of a truly wonderful blues tradition that is unique to the southwest region of Georgia. But, unusually, not only is she...