African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...South, has been almost exclusively Black and White. Moreover, because Black labor and the racial climate tended to discourage large numbers of immigrants, Atlanta's foreign-born population was only 3% at...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...powerful numbers like "South Carolina (Barnwell)," a blistering critique of the construction of the Savannah River nuclear plant in 1975, Scott-Heron directed his listeners' attention to new political battlefields and...
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...Language Association (MLA) announced that its journals (PMLA, Profession, and the bulletins of the Association for Departments of English and Association for Departments of Foreign Languages) have adopted new "open-access-friendly"...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...face has African features and closed eyes. It is covered by coral and sea moss and barnacles that create a visual illusion of alert, open eyes. The image embodies the...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...she traverses the squishy soil around her claptrap, rickety house. In the film's opening scenes the screen floods with light when the Bathtub's bright revelry spills over and neons the...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...opened to the public in April 1905. The Gibbes houses a collection of ten thousand works, principally American portraits, landscapes, still-lives, and miniature portraits with a Charleston or southern connection....
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...State Commission of Forestry. Courtesy of Black and white negatives of South Carolina State Parks, 1934–1967 collection, Open Parks Network, Clemson University and National Park Service. By the late 1930s,...
Palomares Bajo
...environment, and downriver: "A number of accidents [and leaks] due to faulty design and human error ... allowed high level radiation to escape." As with the collusion between US and...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...University's theater offerings and gave Atlanta's African American community access to serious drama with professional stage sets and costumes. Moreover, she opened the university community to the American theater world,...
The Border South
...we quickly discover that the South was not closed but permeable, not sealed airtight but punctured with openings. The region included Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, in the east and stretched...