Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...Jennison shares some of his most insightful findings. Using evocative stories of runaway slaves and the betrayal and murders of allied and non-allied Native Americans, he contends that the conflicts...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...because we chose to live there. I could have easily lived somewhere in the suburbs, but it is best to go to the depressed areas to bring Islam." The way...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...common, fluid border in the geographic regions of South Texas and Northern Mexico. Rio Grande and Pecos Railway Company, Detail of a map of the Rio Grande and Pecos Railway...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
Besieged Terrain
...of a railway line built twenty-five miles away. Timber speculators bought up large tracts. The Mowbary and Robinson Timber Company out of Cincinnati acquired what would become the Robinson Forest....
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...that were exclusively or almost entirely white men, enormous numbers of additional people participated in the War effort, including approximately 200,000 Black soldiers who served in the Federal army and...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...was hurt, the blast, which woke people from their sleep several blocks away, caused almost $200,000 of damage.1Atlanta Constitution, October 13, 1958; New York Times, October 16, 1958. For a...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...mule tale retold breaks by the fourth verse onto another plane, away from the arrival of the "blue-eyed baby," the product of probable betrayal and potential racialized sexual violation, away...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...Strengthening those bonds within environments that allow for economic autonomy seems like a way of creating space between people and the nation-state. It might also offer a way to endure...