Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...state flag. —Gwen Magee Southern Heritage/Southern Shame, 2001. © Gwendolyn A. Magee. Pieced, quilted, and appliquéd fabrics, with cording. 22.5"x32.5". Collection of Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, Michigan. Purchased...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...the male slaves were of the mindset of trying to escape or rebel against their owners."6Melvin M. Miles, Eng and Chang: From Siam to Surry (self-published, CreateSpace, 2013), 65. Perhaps...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...workers suffered the deadliest U.S. coal mining accident since 1984, in the Jim Walter Resources' Brookwood mine, where 13 people died, including Dennis Mobley, who was in my high school...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Sjoquist (New York: Russell Sage, 2000), 2. The mismatch between the alarming poverty rates and the perceptions of Atlanta as a thriving city for African Americans reflects what social scientists...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...of the "Great Recession," more than 1,000 public school districts across every state in the Union—2/5 of the more than 2,700 school districts for which data was available in 2008—had...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...ditch, whose small currents, as she recalled, were awash with dead minnows (243). By the time of her testimony, Mims was seventy years old. An expert witness testified that her...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...War until, in 1781, he was mistakenly shot and killed by a friend during a scouting mission. Nancy Miller Nancy Miller Benson (1809-1879) was the wife of Silas Benson and...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...American Immigration to Atlanta.” Southern Spaces, May 19, 2006. https://southernspaces.org/2006/global-lives-local-struggles-latin-american-immigrants-atlanta Smith, James. “Guatemala: Economic Migrants Replace Political Refugees,” Migration Policy Institute, Migration Information Source, April 2006. http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?id=392 return to top...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...of Nebraska Press, 2009); Robbie Ethridge, From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540–1715 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013). in...