Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...Atlanta's several ethnic enclaves for recently-arrived and settled immigrants from Mexico, Central America, and South America. Francisco hopes to work in Atlanta for two or three years and send money...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...them down, even going on a stake-out in New Orleans.20Sibley, Turned Funny, 258. The children had gone to live with Cricket's parents in Indiana and neither Mary nor Celestine saw them...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...roads. In turn, anti-Klan activity during Reconstruction often protected streets and neighborhoods. Armed African American groups in Bennettsville, South Carolina, for example, organized protective street patrols.1Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Topeka State Journal, Topeka, Kansas, December 22, 1896. Bottom, Excerpt, The Washington Times, Washington, DC, September 15, 1919. Newspaper article clippings. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Patriot resembles Henry Hampton’s Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years (Part 1, 1986; Part 2, 1989) in narrative style, content, and editing. Anne Braden in the SCEF office...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...time being the bounty of lessons suggests that COVID-19 is America's Teachable Moment Pandemic.4Alfred W. Crosby, America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918, Second Edition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003),...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...But, no educational policy at any level today acknowledges America's large population of children in extreme poverty and the extraordinary challenges they face in education. It is time for a...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...Pennsylvania" a reliable treat. Listen to Stein read excerpts from The Making of America Once out of Allegheny, Stein, like her teacher William James and his brother Henry and their...