Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
A City Divided
...and black occupancy increased, elite whites became distressed about more African American homes, which they equated with urban disorder. From 1899 to 1910, the number of households within the declared...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...razed and an untold number of residents displaced in the name of progress. Nor is its future unclouded. Evening on Bayou St. John, New Orleans, between 1900 and 1906. Library...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...on a June 2015 flight lists items prohibited for import, including "maps and literature where Indian external boundaries have been shown incorrectly." More recently, the Indian government has sought to...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...in Letters (New York: Anchor Books, 2002), 51–52. With regards to the opacity of Dust Tracks, Maya Angelou's 1995 foreword to the book is instructive. Angelou famously observes of Dust...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...Texas Press, 2012), from which this essay is adapted. About the Katrina Bookshelf Series The University of Texas Press is proud to introduce the Katrina Bookshelf Series, Kai Erikson, Series...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...Sexuality: Volume One: An Introduction (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978), 78. The book's title is often translated as "Volume One: An Introduction." The "truth" of sex for Foucault is not...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...disasters were other popular cyclorama subjects.7Stephan Oettermann, The Panorama: History of a Mass Medium (New York: Zone Books, 1997), 343; Angela Miller, "The Panorama, the Cinema, and the Emergence of...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
...Rare Book Library recently acquired several independent black comic book series as part of a concerted effort to expand the African American periodicals collection. The three-volume trade paperback Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is...