Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...transformations. Minutes, summaries of the proceedings at annual Sacred Harp singings, constitute an integral part of this music culture. Elected or appointed secretaries originally published minutes in pamphlets or spread...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...painting to the city, Atlanta's park commissioners committed funds to restore the panorama and repair the circular wooden building in Grant Park where it was exhibited. The refurbished attraction was...
"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"...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...up 17 percent of Friday participants but 25 percent of overall mosque participants. Actual women's participation is possibly higher given that criteria for "association and how survey respondents measured it...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...time, a bit of a pariah. But it's not like he's the only Black queer person dating white guys. I think him feeling like a bit of a pariah has...
Good-Bye to All That?
...representation in the state house and senate moved back and forth between fairly conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans and there was considerable cross-party cooperation. Party affiliation by race in Pisgah...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...any constitutional partiality on their part, or difference in their tastes [. . .], as from the absence of fresh meats of all kinds," other slaves and freed people expressed...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the lower coast and into the Atchafalaya Swamp Basin to the southwest. Plan d'une partie du Vermillion District Attacapas, [Attakapa region land grants], Louisiana, ca. 1795–1816. Map by François Gonsoulin...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...number of such case studies have been done, then to look for patterns." Bioregional history is, therefore, the story of different but successive cultures occupying the same space.2Dan Flores, "Place:...