The Cobb County Braves
...has noted, residents of Cobb County, an epicenter of suburbanization and white flight in the Metro-Atlanta region, have long opposed government spending on public transportation. In a press conference and...
The Black Belt
...Belt, its property owners benefiting from one of the most regressive tax structures in the nation. Segregated education remains a common practice due to white flight into private Christian academies....
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...resegregation of places of residence, work, leisure, education, and worship Workplace democracy, union organizing, and corporate flight Gendered segregation, e.g. in state legislatures or boardrooms Age-based segregation Memory and memorialization...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...slats. The post-war, white-flight model of red-lining and restrictive covenants has been transformed. Well-to-do people of color, the poor, and working classes are likewise drawn to urban peripheries. But subdivisions...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...readers of Scribner's magazine.1See King, "This book is the record of an extensive tour of observation through the States of the South and South-west during the whole of 1873, and...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
Queer [__] Revolution? "The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it." —James Baldwin "The gay revolution began as a literary revolution." This is the first...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
Introduction Since the 1980s, various individuals and publics have dedicated memorials to LGBTQ communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. Among them are George Segal's...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...on a June 2015 flight lists items prohibited for import, including "maps and literature where Indian external boundaries have been shown incorrectly." More recently, the Indian government has sought to...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...turning Stonewall's rebellion into art. The Sweet Gum Head is where Atlanta earned its reputation for top-flight female impersonation. It's where Atlanta's drag came out of the closet. Before RuPaul...