A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...numbers, vetting projects, and trading horses in an effort that to longtime observers must have seemed a fool's errand. Competition, not collaboration, had long characterized metropolitan relationships and it wasn't...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...predicated on exploiting women, people of color, and vulnerable workforces in developing countries—constitutes an aporia that Water Graves acknowledges without exploring.4As indicated by the Pew Research Center, wage gaps continue...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...partnership with the College of Charleston's Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture and the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW), LDHI's mission is to facilitate public...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...laterally via competitive forces" (146). This American success myth, described by film scholar Julie Levinson as incorporating "the dream of rags-to-riches, the image of the can-do American, the credo of...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...the importance of family to Cubans. The first decade of González Melo's writing centers the Cuban youth culture of the early 2000s, a culture both gay and straight, hungry and...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Anthropology 14 (August 2013): 304–7; James Clifford, "Indigenous Articulations," Contemporary Pacific 13 (Fall 2001): 470–72, 478–79; Robin Delugan, "Indigeneity across Borders: Hemispheric Migrations and Cosmopolitan Encounters," American Ethnologist 37 (February...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Cannot Do in a Time of Pandemic," Scientific American, February 2, 2021, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-science-can-and-cannot-do-in-a-time-of-pandemic/. Sports celebrities and other influencers joined in; some publicly declined vaccinations for spurious or unspoken reasons. In...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...James "Big Jim" Folsom, said as much in 1962, after noting the presence of a large number of light-skinned African Americans in his audience. "There's a whole lot of integratin'...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...door at 355 Broadway. The new facility accommodated seven-hundred fifty to eight hundred patrons and quickly became the hub of African American entertainment in Macon. As the premiere African American...