Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...issue of temporary workers brought in to construct and staff the Olympic Village and sporting centers then laid off after the Games' close. After Eric Rudolph's pipe bomb was detonated...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...in favor of the mosque."3Rush Limbaugh, "Imam Barack Hoover Obama and Fellow Democrats are Living a Lie," The Rush Limbaugh Show, transcript, August 19, 2010, accessed January 4, 2013, http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2010/08/19/imam_barack_hoover_obama_and_fellow_democrats_are_living_a_lie....
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...gathered at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, for the first Ireland Sacred Harp Singing Convention. A sacred, non-denominational, group singing tradition associated with the rural southeastern United States, Sacred...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...And it is here, among area progressives and their interest groups, that the T-SPLOST's story becomes most interesting.10Aaron Gould Sheinin and Greg Bluestein, "Deal: Rule out revote," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Sjoquist (New York: Russell Sage, 2000), 2. The mismatch between the alarming poverty rates and the perceptions of Atlanta as a thriving city for African Americans reflects what social scientists...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Hodges and Terry Sanford in the 1950s and early 1960s set the tone for the last half of the twentieth century, emphasizing racial moderation and new models of business and...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...the Vévé signs of voudun and a kind of military coroner's occupation.”7Spitzer, Nick. E-mail correspondence, June 16, 2009. “Now each house bore runic signs in orange spray paint. . .”8Piazza,...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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