Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...the United States, they also maintained important links with family and community members back in Guatemala. They communicated with parents, wives, children, and siblings through phone and audio- and video-taped...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Somdal. Originally published in Chicago Daily Tribune (August 24, 1945). Courtesy of Chicago Tribune Archives. Writing to Petrie from her home in Claxton, Plyler said she had read that the...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Issuing of Grants," Dec. 21, 1835, both in Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia, comp. Oliver Hillhouse Prince (Athens, GA: Published by the Author, 1837), 154, 283...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 139. In Charlotte, the CPA (Concerned Parents Association) was composed of "well-heeled whites;" these "upwardly mobile parents"...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...port of Memphis is the largest still-water harbor on the Mississippi River and the fourth-largest inland port in the United States. Memphis handles more foreign import tonnage than any inland...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Modern Wartime (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), 216. Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting Sorry, your browser does not support the <video> element. 1: Confederate Attack At 4:30 p.m., Confederate...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Good Jobs, Relatives Spur Return," Washington Times, February 16, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/16/in-a-reversal-more-blacks-moving-back-to-south/; Thomas J. Sugrue,The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Who Are the "Phantoms" of Avondale?, August 15, 1965. Originally published in The Albatross (August 1965): 1. Courtesy of Brian Riedel. The text is an intriguing window to the mise...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...River, the land was dubbed Freedom Hill. Twenty years later, a Black community elder named Turner Prince purchased the land, and it was renamed Princeville, the first incorporated Black town...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...of Texas at Austin, 2003); Anita Grabowski, "Organizing for Change: Labor Organizers and Latin American Poultry Workers, A Report of the Poultry Worker Justice Research Project," Inter-American Policy Studies Occasional...