African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...the urban industrial belt that stretches from Danville, Virginia, through Charlotte, North Carolina, and Greenville, South Carolina, and extends to Birmingham, Alabama. This swath of piedmont plateau at the base...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...loved ones as phones begin to work again have allowed everyone to breathe normally for the first time in a week. Outside the city, mandatory evacuations forced many to leave...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...origins back to businesses using slave labor (Cox). After the war, northern corporations went after more riches in the South. One post-war article in a northern newspaper praised the education...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland." King's empathetic analysis brought to light many of...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...as a teaching assistant at the University of North Carolina in 1971, I had to sign a statement saying that I was not a communist! I thought I had escaped...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of North Carolina Press, 1996), 87. In response, they pushed African Americans into concentrated areas and situated roads and highways as barriers to the north neighborhoods into which whites fled....
Mississippi: State of Confession
...(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005). Evangelical is indeed an embattled term. For Dupont, evangelical is a unifying theological term denoting Christians, regardless of denomination, who are united...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...History: By the mid-nineteenth century, the Carolina backcountry had been transformed from a sparsely populated region to an upcountry filled with established farms. The earliest quilts in the collection of...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
Video About the Speaker Born in 1933 to Irish immigrant parents, Constance Curry grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where she...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...in Northwest Austin Municipal Util. Dist. No. One v. Holder, 557 US 193, 203 (2009), emphasis added by Roberts in the Shelby County v. Holder decision. In the US Constitution, the words...