Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...Satchmo, so in time was the theater of the performing arts rechristened for another towering figure in New Orleans musical history: the great gospel singer, Mahalia Jackson. You don’t have...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...related to day labor with the greatest proportion of fatalities were construction (first place) with eighteen percent and manufacturing at fifteen percent (third place). The occupation of day laborers had...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Inequality, ed. David L. Sjoquist (New York: Russell Sage, 2000), 38–39. In Atlanta, high-income African Americans have a greater, though still limited, access to residence in traditionally white suburbs. In...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...a key player in the city's racially-shifting midcentury real estate business and power structure. Collier Heights, originally a predominately white neighborhood in Atlanta’s southwest corner, would not have welcomed Russell...
The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron
The poet tries to make the heron a god, but the heron does not care. The heron wades along the shore, a dark body absorbing light, patience stopping time. The...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...Henry, the great leader of the NAACP in Mississippi, but, to be candid, his wife likely would have quashed any such project. I told Ash about Jheri's SRS, then called...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...“shatter zones” such places as Yunnan, the southwestern province of China; the corridor of highland Africa that was safe from slave-raiding; and the Balkans and the Caucasus—and also many sites...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
Jim Bunkley interview. Recorded in Geneva, Georgia, 1969. Bunkley discusses his life, music, and brief work in a medicine show in Southwest Georgia. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...study of how these new relationships worked themselves out, how an urban area became the frontier of racial policy in the New South. Atlanta lies in the southwestern end of...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...convincing one. Of great value, too, is his finding that this decline was a product of the connections between this peripheral place and external markets. Slavery in Maryland was inextricably...