Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
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...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...landed on the shores of the New World, newly freed Black people resisted the re-imposition of slavery. In the revolutionary period of Reconstruction, they developed new tools of resistance—the Union...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...rights: This nation was never meant to be a unit of one . . . but if we amalgamate into the one unit as advocated by the communist philosophers. ....
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...US Literature and Culture(Durham: Duke University Press, 2000). This is not to suggest that, in the poem, location and context alone determine one's race. Paul and his siblings certainly help to guide...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...new masters would fare better in realizing New Orleans's potential.3Johann Friedrich Nonne, eds. Neue Allgemeine Weltbühne Auf Das Jahr 1804, (Erfurt, Germany: Johann Friedrich Nonne, 1804), 499; Thank you to Alexander...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...deadly and debilitating toll.6Staff, "A Timeline of COVID-19 Vaccine Developments in 2021," AMJC, June 3, 2021, https://www.ajmc.com/view/a-timeline-of-covid-19-vaccine-developments-in-2021. In contrast to the Covid geographies of the US, Brazilians appeared to "love...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...sphinx, Brooklyn, New York, June 13, 2014. Photograph by Valérie Loichot. Courtesy of Valérie Loichot. "The Marvelous Sugar Baby" cannot be confused with Nina Simone's "Sweet Thing," available for the...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...Photographic negative by Walker Evans. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF342-008133. Untitled (near Jackson, Mississippi), ca. 1970, printed 2002. Photograph and dye-transfer print...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Museum, was eleven years old when she and her fourteen-year-old sister Linda participated in the Bloody Sunday events. See "Joanne Bland," Baylor Magazine 2, no. 2 (September–October 2003), http://www.baylor.edu/alumni/magazine/0202/news.php?action=story&story=7585. Taking...