New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...between 1994/95-2007/08. There were clear differences in growth by racial group and by district. As shown in Table 1, between 1994/95-2007/08 the number of white high schoolers in the six...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...developed, financed, designed, and constructed by African Americans for African American residents.2See Betsy Riley, "Collier Heights awarded Local Historic district status," Atlanta Magazine, May 16, 2013, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/civilrights/collier-heights-awarded-local-historic-district-status/; U.S. Department of the...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...in the Appalachian movement. The field began in the tension and turmoil of activism vs. scholarship, but currently, if not a complete fusion, there seems to be mutual respect between...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Turner Field). Throughout the two weeks between the Opening and Closing Ceremonies on Sunday, August 4, the place and purpose of this patently international gathering was juxtaposed to the corporate...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...that all the stories worth telling—stories of love and betrayal, heartache and triumph, justice and oppression—could be found in one small corner of the world. Getting the stories right meant...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...a mediating role between the interests of the coal industry and the actions of the state. It facilitates apparent distance between corporate power and public policy, and seems to ground...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...models because of its non-hierachal emphasis on mutualism rather than models that maintain divisions between givers and receivers. Mutual aid is rooted in reciprocity. Endstate ATL took advantage of these...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...6. "The growth and the collaboration are a credit to the leadership Emory has shown in building a digital scholarship center and promoting digital humanities," Hatfield says. "All of our...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...square during a break between singing sessions at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, Fayette County, Alabama, 2012. Photograph by Andy Ditzler. Courtesy of Andy Ditzler. After trying out the device at...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...somewhat uneven book, law professors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer combine environmental and legal history in their examination of the relationship between human action and disaster in the...