Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...campus of a major university that pulls 60 percent of its student population from metro Atlanta, the most important city in the South. Three likely leaders of tomorrow." But I...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...dispersed. "Our country was born in violence," he told them. "Tomorrow is the day. Every blow that you strike will be a blow for freedom." In another context, he was...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
Greetings from Austin Greetings From Austin, Capitol of Texas. Photograph by Flickr user mirsasha (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). In July of 2011 Bon Appétit named Franklin Barbecue of Austin, Texas, the...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Divides: Labor Rights and Immigrant Rights as Sites for Cosmopolitan Legality,” in Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Cesar A. Rodriguez-Garavito eds....
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
Introduction On a Saturday evening in February 2003, more than four hundred indigenous people from the Guatemala highlands gathered in the assembly hall of the Cherokee County middle school in...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...in April 1865.3James M. McPherson, Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief (New York: The Penguin Press, 2014), 205; Brian Holden Reid, The Scourge of War: The Life of...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...Bertram Wyatt-Brown, The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 205; Richard H. King, A Southern Renaissance: The Cultural Awakening...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...Texas. The White book is used in some singings in east Atlanta and northwest Georgia (Cobb 1989, 6-7). Map of Cooper Book Usage Map of White Book Usage The Southern...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...in India and Latina/Latino migrants to the USA, in these instances, to assimilate, to conform, to change themselves—if indeed they can. Upward social mobility is the presumed route out of...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...Mississippi Valley Division, "Mississippi River and Tributaries Project," http://www.mvd.usace.army.mil/About/MississippiRiverCommission%28MRC%29/MississippiRiverTributariesProject%28MRT%29.aspx. Many disagree and argue that by altering the natural hydrological regime and boosting development on the flood-prone areas, federal flood control...