Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...1940s, Gainey grew up poor and gay in rural South Carolina and attended Clemson University, where he studied ornamental horticulture. Using vernacular plants in classical garden design, he became a...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...of color, Dabney exemplified the nexus of race and class in early America and epitomizes "the trajectory of blacks in Georgia" (2). For Jennison, a bifurcated society of white versus...
A City Divided
...class. Blacks and whites, business owners and laborers lived in close proximity in the late 1800s, often on the same block. If the home-owning whites who occupied the distinguished homes...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...other reasons, too. A few free Black people could even conduct business at the establishments there, but almost every business owner in the town held a few people in bondage. James...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...rights movement, careers in social work and business, and her experiences as a wife, mother, and grandmother. A native of High Point, North Carolina, Magee lived most of her adult...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...determined by the seating arrangement. It goes in this way: pastor, preachers, licensed minister, deacons, and the class leaders. The descriptions of the positions begin with the class leaders and...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...on Fridays, our name would be called and we would go into the only privacy there was, the cloakroom at the back of the classroom, and there in the narrow...
The Cobb County Braves
...has noted, residents of Cobb County, an epicenter of suburbanization and white flight in the Metro-Atlanta region, have long opposed government spending on public transportation. In a press conference and...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...the job, not the clock. At the semester's conclusion, the class had recorded six hours of interview footage. A final class project tasked students with identifying themes from the collective...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
Introduction Before Hurricane Katrina struck in late August of 2005, the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama had among the highest levels of race, class, and gender inequality...