Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...conservation easement or land trust under the authority of the states and/or counties where each community resides. SECTION 2. Commons communities would be organized according to the design principles developed...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...and state sovereignty. In response to Brown, the vast majority of the South's congressional delegation signed a "Southern Manifesto" in 1956 condemning the Court's opinion and declaring: We regard the...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...previous two films, 2008's Hunger and 2011's Shame, 12 Years a Slave is gorgeously shot, edited with a jeweler's eye, and uses its sound design to bleed scenes into one...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...the murder, funeral, trial, and their aftermath. More precisely, Mace argues that there were significant differences in how print media covered the events based on section of the country—Midwest, Northeast,...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...of 1960—which offered "protection for congregations' property rights" if they choose to break away from denominations that publically supported integration—passed through the Mississippi legislature and was signed into law by...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
..."tableau of street theater," Hudson writes, that corrals the contradictions of Jim Crow into one city block. Black and white, mostly men, stand in the vicinity of a sign for...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...a coherent collection now housed at the Library of Virginia. The collection includes correspondence and drafts of reports but also, significantly, personal diaries and journals from both workers and patients—a...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
... This essay reveals a troubling pattern: for Latinos and African Americans, public high schools in the Metro Atlanta region are experiencing significant racial shifts with greater levels of segregation than...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...he discussed the botanical and cultural aspects of several fruits. In this segment, he talks about the physical characteristics and historical significance of the fig. Steve Bransford, Figs from Ryan...