Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...Canton, GA, 8 August 2003. Manuel Guzmán concurred, "It is dangerous [at a street corner]. I feel more safe here. People respect you. I like the list. I feel comfortable...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...and the Soap Creek Saloon (1973), encouraged a live performative aesthetic among a network of white, mostly male musicians (including Willie Nelson, Michael Murphy, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...Rather than focus on musicians, promoters, and others associated with the music industry, Hopkinson draws upon interviews with an array of participants—including collectors of live recordings, urban wear designers, suburban...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...historic neighborhood and its community-based organizing legacy; and the Inman Park Squirrel Census, with findings and often humorous stories from its "census" of the Eastern gray squirrel in an urban...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...novel about psychologically damaged warriors, that's just the way it happens. In a way, all wars are the same war. The other novel, The Missing—really, the novels can be analyzed...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...of Georgia Press, 1997); Kiri Miller, Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008); David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan, The Makers of...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...As the major railroad hub in the South, Atlanta became a commercial and financial center. Although the city's business leadership was a new elite, its economy depended on many ways...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...parental status and their adopted children's inheritance rights through specific legislative acts.4Michael Grossberg, Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...That's what I thought the place was about. Those early photographs, as I look at them now, feel like clichés. Given time, my increasing personal involvement, and the challenges of...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Community," The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas, ed. Walter Johnson, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), 65. The enslaved were brought up from the Butler rice plantation,...