Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...things like that, anything that's manual labor, sweep, mop, clean the bathrooms, anything that's unskilled and just requires a body. Not too much on the [manufacturing] line, and if it...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...very divisions, he doesn't make clear. Nor does Mellard carefully examine class and regional differences that place the white-middle class hippie against the white working-class redneck. The song that best...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...enclave of black life and culture. The "Death" referred to in the book's title is, thankfully, not that of go-go itself, but that of the isolated, culturally independent, economically deprived,...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...the center for a song, believing that this is the best vantage point from which to apprehend what makes the music culture so moving to its participants. Composing Sacred Harp's...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...Black community reveals the constraints and opportunities that characterized Atlanta's development as the leading city of the New South. Born a railroad terminus in the 1840s, Atlanta was a town...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...black people the very rights or recognition of kinship—Indians were described as free people who could potentially be incorporated into the US national family, a process that in turn mandated that...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...embarrassed that my photographs offered no tangible benefits in a place that seemed to value useful things that aided survival: firewood, bean seeds, a cut of cloth. Then, as I...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
Introduction The blades of grass on all the Butler estates are outnumbered by the tears that are poured out in agony at the wreck that has been wrought in happy...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...that this voting rights case was primarily a competition between the constitutional right of citizens to vote and the "constitutional equality of the States"—and held that states' rights won.2Coyle v....
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...2014, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/01/steve-mcqueen-armond-white-controversy.html. In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, White refers to himself as "the strongest voice that exists in contemporary criticism," and claims that several influential New York film...