Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...51,387 18% 39% 34,409 7% Newton County 13,690 40,371 22% 40% 26,681 6% Rockdale County 12,670 38,996 18% 46% 26,326 6% Nearing Majority Black Subtotal 156,262 298,807 19% 30% 142,545...
Religion and the US South
Introduction Hope Mills Rapid Lube Sign, Hope Mills, North Carolina, March 20, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user Gerry Dincher. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. Religion has been a formative...
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...
Writing Appalachia
...DC, December 16, 2018. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 3.0. What is the traditional master narrative of Appalachian literature and scholarship? Higgs and Manning summarize it...
The Shenandoah Valley
...Commons. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. Bottom: Aerial photograph of Harper’s Ferry, Maryland Heights, Virginia. Photograph by Mark Fickett. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
Every week Miz Nell Weaver had us memorize a Bible verse, one for each letter of the alphabet. This was in the fourth grade, Centreville, Alabama, 1956. One by one,...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...marching in Charlotte, North Carolina and 150 marching in Birmingham, Alabama. The larger community in Atlanta initially decided not to march last year but instead to call for a boycott...