Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...and create ways to live in a particular place, a process that included imagination and adaptation as well as habitation. Paulett finds that the geography of place varied with those...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...is an ethnohistory of the eighteenth-century Pawnees, Otoes, and Kansas, focusing particularly on their strategies to protect their homelands and maintain their position at the center of continental trade networks....
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...political forces that elected Donald Trump."17Chauncey Devega, "'Moonlight' and 'Loving': Film as symbolic resistance in the age of Trump," Salon, December 10, 2016, http://www.salon.com/2016/12/10/moonlight-and-loving-film-as-symbolic-resistance-in-the-age-of-trump/. Perhaps what both Moonlight and Loving...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...members collaborated with two Spelman professors to plan, promote, and stage the gathering. Professor of drama and renowned playwright and dance instructor Aku Kadogo joined forces with Glee Club director...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...occurred in Metro Atlanta, including Gwinnett County (up 215%) and Cobb County (up 159%).5US Bureau of the Census 2000. Changing Faces in Public Schools Many Metro Atlanta public schools are...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...(2023). "Florida’s Private Schools 2022–23: School Year Annual Report," https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7562/urlt/PS-annualReport2023.pdf; Alec MacGillis, “Private Schools, Public Money: School Leaders Are Pushing Parents to Exploit Voucher Programs,” ProPublica, Jan. 21, 2024, https://www.propublica.org/article/private-schools-vouchers-parents-ohio-public-funds....
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
..."Laffy Taffy"'s perceived lack of sophistication and overly popular appeal. While similar minimalist approaches to rap continue to enjoy popularity among artists, producers, and audiences, the particularities that defined snap...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...and author: Daniel A. Pollock Project coordinator and digital strategist: Brian Croxall Principal web app software developer: Jay Varner Photograph and historical collections researcher: Christopher Sawula Project librarian: Erica Bruchko...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 139. In Charlotte, the CPA (Concerned Parents Association) was composed of "well-heeled whites;" these "upwardly mobile parents"...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...A Profile" (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2007). Likewise, West Columbia's African American population grew by 24.8 percent, while Columbia's declined by one percent. As the presence of people of...