Our Backward Revolution
...“right-to-life” and anti-feminist constituency that proved to be a far more “righteous” movement than defending segregation. White Protestant evangelicals had voted for the “born-again” Carter in 1976, but four years...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...For," from Walden, or A Life in the Woods (Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1854). Our city creeks mark charismatic, if uncomfortable points of context between activism and disaster fetish,...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...hosted a number of lesbian writers, including southern lesbian feminist writers, was largely unknown in Atlanta proper. The Feminary collective in Durham, North Carolina was well known within lesbian feminist...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...a diversity policy as a central feature" (106). Student assignments—either parent-initiated ones (applying to district magnet schools) or district-mandated ones (requiring attendance at a school to balance student populations along...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...wife Magdalena Zapędowska-Eriksen at an early music festival in the southeastern city of Jarosław. The Ireland Convention—the first large Sacred Harp singing for more than half of the participants—was an...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...a way to avoid levying new fees or issuing road-building bonds. Ingram writes that even after passage of an enhanced Federal Aid Highway Act in 1921, "[t]raditional racial politics collided...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, as well as in New Mexico, California, and a few other states outside the South, an increase in the number of Latino children appears...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...slavery in the cemetery: In memory of Mary wife of Rev Osborne Embraced Religion August 12, 1812 Died 15 Feb 1856. The morning before her death she called her family,...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...the worldwide hierarchy of race that places lighter people over darker people. As educator, writer, and political activist he dedicated his life to the struggle for racial equality. But long...