The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...slats. The post-war, white-flight model of red-lining and restrictive covenants has been transformed. Well-to-do people of color, the poor, and working classes are likewise drawn to urban peripheries. But subdivisions...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...sonic qualities and mostly invented "folk" histories. Instead, musicians shared a broad, interracial musical culture and the tastes of southern working class and middle-class, black and white listeners overlapped. All...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...body of antebellum writing, often collected into books from magazine sketches and easily recognizable through the presence of familiar generic conventions: the clash of upper and lower-class, backwoods characters; heavy...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...and class relations — Prop Master is an example of a challenge. Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan, Page and Logan (far left) talk with museum visitors on Prop Master's...
The Place of Appalachia
...recognized this reality. Rick Simon, for example, employing a Marxist framework, asserted that Appalachia represented a spatialized manifestation of class exploitation.1Richard M. Simon, "Regions and Social Relations: A Research Note,"...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...received a large donation of maps in 1812. Sant’Anna also would have had access to the Bahia Military Academy, where interested laymen like him could attend classes on military cartography....
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...