Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...door at 355 Broadway. The new facility accommodated seven-hundred fifty to eight hundred patrons and quickly became the hub of African American entertainment in Macon. As the premiere African American...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Regional History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), 4. For all its sensitivity to spatial and temporal variation, the literature on white-on-black violence has emphasized the American South. Although whites brutalized African...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...frame and explored violence directed against racial and ethnic groups other than African Americans.2See William D. Carrigan and Christopher Waldrep, eds., Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective (Charlottesville:...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...its reach, the cautious approach and ambivalent attitude of New Deal-era agencies toward southern defiance of federal law, and the evolution of the NAACP's legal strategy for securing African Americans'...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...colonial pasts as the products of various historical forces from Europe, Africa, and the rest of the Americas that converged upon the Caribbean basin following the Columbian voyages of the...
Besieged Terrain
...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...RIGHT QUADRANT — Personal hazards. BOTTOM QUADRANT — Number of live and dead victims still inside the structure. ["0" = no victims] National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System,...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
Introduction I begin an exploration of the history of prejudice by looking at the process of othering—or social and political distancing—that is a central part of the history of African...