Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...Canton, GA, 8 August 2003. Manuel Guzmán concurred, "It is dangerous [at a street corner]. I feel more safe here. People respect you. I like the list. I feel comfortable...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Georgia Archives. Colson's crusade against DDT began in 1945, the same year the pesticide emerged from the Second World War as an American miracle. First synthesized by an Austrian chemist...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...govern their actions come from. Over the next month, we4We being, for the rest of this post, Lindsey and Emma. sort of fell into a rhythm of collaborative ethnography. We...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...really needed great port cities."5Richard Campanella, Bienville's Dilemma: a Historical Geography of New Orleans (Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2008), 232. Even bananas, the most...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...by his continual becoming. Still from Moonlight. © A24, 2016. "Little" is structured around Juan, the first character we meet in Moonlight, stepping out of his bright blue car. As...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...took longer to transition to electric power. Through the 1880s, mules remained the most popular means to move trolleys, just as they did when the first streetcar ran from Whitehall...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...mass military mobilizations during WWII and a growing military job sector.9The United States Census Bureau designated San Antonio the fastest growing city in the United States in 2018: United States...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...began to link together the struggle against racism and against national oppression and against colonial oppression and the struggle against the exploitation of workers. And if you are from the...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...family groupings from eldest to youngest. Perhaps Ashley is Toney and Winney's grandchild, and they were looking after her in the absence of Ashley's mother Rose. Robert Martin's inventory showing...