Sonic Zora in Florida
...of her explanatory cues, the distinctions that she makes between, say, a "jook song" and a "lining" accompaniment, her references to her own ethnographic prowess ("Miss Hurston describ[es] how she...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...vision. Often associated with rural and western spaces, coyotes have been migrating eastward for the past century and now occupy increasingly contested territory in major metropolitan areas, including Atlanta. A...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
...numerous awards including a Pulitzer Prize nomination, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and the Kahn Award for Distinguished Teaching from Stanford University. Prof. White is a former president of the Western...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...in the corner of the room, making small talk in Cajun French even though my "project" tries to avoid nativist ideologies about Louisiana culture.2For instance, the ideologies that promote a...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...adopted by singing masters as other shape note songbooks appeared in the mid-Atlantic, midwestern, and southern states in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Singing schools and shape note...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Plantation located in Twiggs County, Georgia. To help shape policy and to promote sound forestry management practices in the United States, Leavell published Forever Green: The History and Hope of...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...in 2003, they remain in the Virginia Code. A federal appeals court specifically struck down this statute this March in the course of a case where an adult male solicited...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...line between white and Black property: white residents on the west side and Black residents on the east side. Ignoring Jim Crow, Drew's family and other Black families crossed the...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...(Source: "Shooting the Chutes," Atlanta Constitution (April 9, 1896), pg. 10. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, privately-owned amusement parks dotted the American landscape, and by 1920, between...
The Carolina Piedmont
...to desegregate factories and workplaces, or in the number of newly elected black officials. In reaction, drawing upon anti-government resentment and racial codewords, initiatives such as Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy...