Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...University of Southern California. He is the author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 (Oxford University Press, 1993), co-editor of Los Angeles and...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...view the documentary in its full length of seventy-eight minutes. About the Directors Steve Bransford is the senior video producer at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and the founder...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...at the crossroads of the modern and the folk. On tape, one hears a forty-eight-year-old Hurston (who brashly claims for the record that she is thirty-five) both collaborating with and...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Thought from Slavery to Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977). Community, after all, was a key word in the new social history. For revisionist historians "community" signaled a broad...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...and Derek H. Alderman, Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory (Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College, 2008); Renee Christine Romano and Leigh Raiford, The Civil Rights...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...reviewed by the editorial board. AtlantaStudies.org also offers a gateway to several projects and resources. Current featured projects are the ECDS's Battle of Atlanta smartphone-accessible tour; the Peoplestown Project about the...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...preoccupation with sensory order and decorum was particularly intense in a city such as Charleston, South Carolina, built on slavery, where every social relation exhibited gradations of command and obedience....