Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...an all-white restaurant, or to momentarily avoid a racial indignity. Some white leaders openly acknowledged what a large number of various skin complexions meant in the real life of...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...the historical art market. In a world where maps abound on pocket devices and where we make wayfinders with a few clicks on our screens, we may forget the complexities...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...parking in a grass lot around back. Nancy Marshall, O'Connor's chair, Andalusia, Spring 2007. When I get out, I notice a few others milling about on self-guided tours, their voices...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...World Culture through the New World: East Indians and Creolization," American Ethnologist 33, no. 4 (November 2006): 549-562. For a discussion of Viranjini Munasinghe's article see American Ethnologist 33, no....
Black Population Atlanta and the Vicinity, 1940-1970
Maps for "White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta" Kevin Kruse, White Flight and the Making of Modern Conservatism Published: 28 November 2005 © 2006 Kevin...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...the world shared by stonemason and patron. The gravestones, in fact, offer additional ways to enter that world, for they were its sculpture gallery. The inscriptions upon them also compose...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...slats. The post-war, white-flight model of red-lining and restrictive covenants has been transformed. Well-to-do people of color, the poor, and working classes are likewise drawn to urban peripheries. But subdivisions...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003). Just as abolitionists understood themselves within a worldwide network in opposition to bondage, slaveholders envisioned their...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In the wake of the Supreme Court's recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act, we found this helpful map from the American Constitution Society for...