"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...and teachers "were ready for a change anyway. Some people were ready for a change." Ward's narrative—both a narrative of personal victory and a story of unabated struggle—and those of...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...aftermath of the war contributed to a second wave of Maya immigration to the United States. The Peace Accords brought about some important changes—demilitarization, creation of a civilian police force,...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...too great. "We could not overcome the bigger dynamics out there," Stockert admitted. "I don't think there's anything we could have done that would have changed the outcome." Indeed, local...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...it had begun, with a consideration of the meaning and effects of Grant's having changed his name. Stein's "Grant" begins: Grant in his very early life was under obligation to...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...the movement. Rethinking the American Environmental Movement also engages larger structural changes within the US economy and society, such as mass suburbanization in the 1950s and deindustrialization in the 1970s...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Changeable Are the Events of War': National Reconciliation in the Century Magazine's 'Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,'" American Periodicals:A Journal of History and Criticism 16, no. 2 (2006):...
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Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Miami's queer landscape radically change once more, with the 1959 Cuban Revolution and other Cold War era political and cultural shifts. Many bemoaned the fear of losing "Miami after Dark."6Capó,...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...whereas coal contributes to climate change and the disruption of human societies all over the world; whereas a rural policy should incorporate ecological principles with food production on a small...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...year, I hear the hum of the mill, and her humming the numb walk home after a shift change. When she wakes in mid-afternoon it is 1945 and her life...