Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...had already amassed a national reputation with his first book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (1910). Two years later, John began his scholarly flirtations with Louisiana while serving as...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...states across the West and Midwest in a November 2014 federal lawsuit that currently blocks President Obama's executive order to provide a path to citizenship to almost four million illegal immigrants. Representatives from majority-white...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...live the paradox of economic growth alongside urban blight in Atlanta. As Nadim Ali, a committed member of the Community Masjid mosque, told me, "We live in the West End...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...in Atlanta, Jeff Drew's father, John (1908–1991), co-founded the Alexander Insurance Agency with the mission of providing affordable insurance to Black customers. While a Morehouse student, John Drew met Alfred...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...the mundane, and found ourselves in the back of a fast food restaurant drinking Coors Light from bottles, chalking cues where we were the only customers. We ate crawfish among...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...black first graders who lived within their zones. (Nothing was said about how rezoning would affect the black schools to which those children would have gone, or about whites moving...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...to discuss the ongoing management of the field and his forestry philosophy of sustainability Live in Macon On December 3, 2004 Chuck Leavell performed a solo piano concert at the...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...Jheri was a recently divorced father of four who was beginning to transition. Despite the fact that we now live four or five thousand miles apart, we have been friends...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...key natural resources. These measures should bring about a radical decentralization of power in order to give local people and communities greater control over their lives and prospects. All these...