Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...and loving and playing in a place gives us a special sort of access to some "truth," whether we can (or should) escape our emotional attachments to (or severed from)...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...felt great loyalty to the memory of the Confederacy, but they appear to have shared the prevailing white Southern sentiment that the flag was best reserved for honoring the Confederate...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...about cultural fireworks. Conservative intellectuals and party leaders made a powerful critique of New Deal liberalism. The persuasiveness of these ideas is best seen in the actions of the only...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...inscape, or individuation, sounds so close to terror you'd confuse the two, as if the finest and the rarest blend would come with just a hint of fear or pain,...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...enroll the two girls. Police were present but did nothing to protect the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and his family, who barely managed to escape without serious injury. Nashville's power structure—its...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...of what was then called “college radio” to name the best early 1980s band from Athens, Georgia. Many folks will insist on the most famous band to emerge from this...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...South Part 7: Fostering integration and homeland ties within Latino Catholic spaces Part 8: The transformation of the religious landscape. *Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta was sponsored by...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...infancy/beginning stage. In this stage, local citizens often trust that the coal company has their best interests at heart. They welcome the company for the employment and tax revenues it...
Whiskey and Geography
...the tax. The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 ensued. The uprising was best organized in Monongahela County in southwestern Pennsylvania, where Protestants from northern Ireland had settled. The protesters made counterresolutions,...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...rooms." As his creations garnered attention, he received commissions around the city. Although not formally trained in landscape design, Gainey, through self-study and experimentation, developed a distinctive style that combined...