Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...to the east, rather than the white neighborhoods to the north and west, reveals discrimination most clearly. Tretter argues university administrators employed a “racist theory of value,” which assumes “that...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...can run but you can’t hide forever!” America, we must respect and uphold “The Rule of Law.” Directions From Atlanta: Take I-20 East Exit 82 at Conyers-Athens (Highway 138). Turn...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...people even at a time when nationalism may be viewed warily. Lisa Brooks is also the author of The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (2008),...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...resistance in the West, the Midwest, and the Northeast. This approach makes a worthy contribution to a broader historiography that seeks to undermine "the myth of southern exceptionalism," or the...
Whiskey and Geography
...cities, and they had a ready market for their products. From the Philadelphia elite on down to the redemptioners who worked for them, nearly all the easterners downed alcohol with...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Southern studies, at least in its more traditional manifestations, and studies of immigration to the South are also driven by different political projects. Southern studies operates through a powerful discursive...
Editors
...for social and economic justice in Appalachia and the US South for more than 45 years. Smith served as the Research and Education Director of the Southeast Women’s Employment Coalition,...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...cartographic representation in eastern North America—communication networks connected a wide geography well before Europeans arrived. The territory, however, looked dramatically different from that encountered by Europeans. Rather than power being...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...to improve her health.2Available federal census information indicates that in 1930, Ishcomer was married and had a least one son. Her husband appears to have been a mill hand but...