Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
A City Divided
...on Atlanta's burgeoning population growth, black and white, though the real-estate agents were acutely aware of the tight housing market. The meeting attendees concluded that, "for the best interests of...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...In the 1920s, the roads movement culminated in the Bureau of Public Roads' designation of a national system of numbered federal highways. This system subsumed named routes like the Dixie...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...the ongoing difficulties in addressing race in this country. "We shall," wrote teacher Leila Amos Pendleton, "as a rule speak of ourselves as "Negroes" and always begin the noun with...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...of Gil Scott-Heron, my thoughts frequently turned to "Angola" and the powerful ways in which the song embodied Scott-Heron's longstanding preoccupation with the complex histories, brutal realities, and fruitful possibilities...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...to rethink the geography, chronology, and social relations" of lynching practices (7), it does not quite succeed. The best essays examine lynchings and responses to lynchings outside the South, not...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...the opera house, these men were in some sense recognizing the ways in which entertainment was bound up with violence, as well as the ways in which violence itself was...
The Place of Appalachia
...Appalachian Case (Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1978); Dwight B. Billings, "Introduction: Writing Appalachia: Old Ways, New Ways, and WVU Ways," in Culture, Class and Politics in Modern Appalachia: Essays...
Whiskey and Geography
...de Chastelleaux observed that it was the only drink served in the American backcountry.1David Hackett-Fischer, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 729. In...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...needs other artists, actors to complete it? Or more because of the constant flow of new audiences that are always distinct? Chamaco [Kiddo], Teatro Nacional de Cuba, Havana, Cuba, 2006....