Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
..."almost half had been in America five years or less at the time of the Census." See John Y. Fenton, Transplanting Religious Traditions: Asian Indians in America (New York: Praeger,...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...work since 2004 with a square camera. There are only so many things you can do with a square medium format camera. I've had someone tell me it's evident that...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...North Carolina, ca. 1930–1950. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of the Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the time...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...number about 200, and the casual quarterly meetings are attended by a mix of academics and members of the public. The first annual Atlanta Studies Symposium was held at Emory...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...A History of Its Major Programs, 1932-1961 (New York: Carlson, 1989). On the Scottsboro cases, see Dan T. Carter,Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969);...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...most notorious gadfly, is the most prominent and caustic critic of McQueen's nearly universally lauded film. White's opinions aren't frivolous and uniformed, and it isn't simple trolling when he calls...
"Aint that Something?"
...fill of Canard County," fifteen-year-old Dawn Jewell proclaims in the opening cartoon panel of Trampoline (1). Canard County is a fictional county in Eastern Kentucky. It's rural, poor, and white....
Mississippi Delta
...appeared in the region in this period, including Chinese, Jews, Italians, and Syrians. Top, Side view of Malmaison, historic home of Greenwood Leflore, Carroll County, Mississippi, ca. 1923. Photograph by...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...and Last Objects, Left on Porch of Evacuated House address particular issues of loss—the loss of a place to worship and pray; the loss of a place to socialize, drink,...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...of a national network of what anthropologist St. Clair Drake used to call the "vindicationist school" of black intellectuals. Responding to what I have called the reigning unwisdom of the...