An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...anything but alternative. Home was a new version of the South created by desegregation, interstates, air conditioning, and airports. Our parents had mostly enjoyed the rewards, a hard-earned success that...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...When New York Disses The South,"Complex Magazine, July 1, 2010, http://www.complex.com/music/2010/07/hate-of-the-union-when-new-york-disses-the-south/; Darren E. Grem, "'The South Got Something to Say': Atlanta's Dirty South and the Southernization of Hip-hop America,"Southern Cultures...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
Review As a scholar born in the US South who has spent much of my career teaching southern history, I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...of Southern History 84, no. 3 (August 2018): 579–614; Sharla Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002); Todd...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...era, the cruel treatment of re-education camp detainees shaped the forced migration of thousands of former Southern Vietnamese political prisoners. Many South Vietnamese sought new identities as they resettled in...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...Atlanta's several ethnic enclaves for recently-arrived and settled immigrants from Mexico, Central America, and South America. Francisco hopes to work in Atlanta for two or three years and send money...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...complexity, and indigenous power rather than the inexorable westward march of European domination. For Dubcovsky this early South—"the composite societies who came to inhabit the colonies of South Carolina, Georgia,...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Grocery Stores for selling products grown or manufactured in South Africa. Lowery and SCLC equated the practice of apartheid in South Africa to the practice of racism in the southern...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...at the mouth, Bayboro Harbor, just south of the city's previously moribund but now skyrocketing downtown. As one journeys southwest, going upstream, the creek services a working port (properties now...