Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Oscar Johnston, head of the immense cotton plantation empire owned by the British corporation Delta Pine and Land; William Mitch, organizer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO); Charles F....
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
Introduction What role does cruising play in marking specific areas of the urban landscape as "queer territory"?1For the purposes of this essay, I use the word "queer" primarily in its...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...in existing public housing and the one-to-one replacement of demolished units, HUD policies ultimately helped rid cities of public housing complexes. In the process, HUD began to relinquish oversight, management,...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...auto parts sales manager, began to experiment with sound, car angle, and weather conditions for showing movies in his Riverton, New Jersey, driveway. The following year, Hollingshead obtained a patent...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...American community in Atlanta during the twentieth century. From the perspective of a specific community in a particular place at a critical period, studying race becomes more manageable and gains...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
The largest proportion of LGBTQ+ Americans—thirty-five percent—live in the southeastern states from Maryland and West Virginia down to Texas and Oklahoma.1Amira Hasenbush, Andrew R. Flores, Angeliki Kastanis, Brad Sears, and...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...race, religion, law, science, and history and with myriad other prejudices, doctrines, sentiments, and myths. Georgetown College, Washington, D.C., ca. 1800. Engraving by Casimir Bohn. Courtesy of the Library of...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
Blog Post In a 2021 case from Arizona, Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., issued an opinion of the US Supreme Court—calling it a "fresh look"—that sabotages Section 2 of the...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Review Peter Harholdt, Radcliffe Bailey in his studio with Clean Up II, November 2010. Over the last two decades, Radcliffe Bailey has produced some of the most distinctive art in...
A City Divided
Introduction In spite of increasing animosity between workers and elites, blacks and whites, through the turn of the century, Atlanta's residential landscape remained curiously heterogeneous in terms of race and...