States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...president, South Carolina declared that his election foretold that "the equal rights of the States will be lost. The slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...and grief resulting from an irrevocable loss—in this case, the loss of an ideal urban (and specifically inner-city) neighborhood. Techwood Homes, housing project in Atlanta, 1993. Site of Sibley's descriptions...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
Palomares Bajo
...Readers' Digest, and Washington Post headlines focused on "The Missing H-Bomb," singular. The latest book, from 2009, probes The Day We Lost the H-Bomb. Explicit in its manipulation of press...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...noble indignation, repulses him with one final effort, but one so sudden, so powerful, that Alfred lost his balance and struck his head as he fell. . . . At...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
Review I recently went to an opening-night screening in West Los Angeles of Richard Linklater's latest film, Boyhood. This was no red-carpet affair. There were no designer gowns, photographers, or...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...this decentralized music culture. Minutes detail the name of each song leader, the page number(s) of song(s) each person led, the names of officers and committee members, these committees' reports,...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
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...