New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...toward other rural and urban areas known as "new settlement" destinations. Potential employment opportunities fueled migration to southern cities as well as attracted a growing number of foreign-born workers. Unlike...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...spaces in the D.C. area, and yet was reelected to Congress for his conservative Republican values. Eventually, he was caught again and run out of office. We thought about Aaron...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...Tyger River area. Rosa was the oldest of the eleven children of Silas and Nancy. The quilt that Silas and Nancy Benson gave their daughter was a whole-cloth quilt of...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
Review Any historical account requires a framing device—temporal, thematic, or geographical—establishing the scope of enquiry. A Caribbean history typically invokes fairly settled geographical parameters that delimit the area to insular...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...prejudices against prominent whites who occasionally consumed this lowly scavenger. The American persimmon tree (Diospyros virginiana)—an early invading species in disturbed areas and along forest-pasture boundaries—was common throughout the opossum's...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...the sun setting behind the hills on the Bay of Portobelo on the Caribbean coast of the Republic of Panama. The view from my studio faces the remains of a...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...of riverside interests had to lobby hard in order to gain legal justification and congressional support for flood control. Mississippi River Flood of 1927 showing Flooded Areas and Field of...