Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...Atlanta's several ethnic enclaves for recently-arrived and settled immigrants from Mexico, Central America, and South America. Francisco hopes to work in Atlanta for two or three years and send money...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Susan M. Wachter (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), 305-328. Among these evacuees were the very musicians, traditional chefs, building artisans, ritual-festival celebrants of Carnival, and members of social aide and...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...170 Bald cypress in Lake Drummond, Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia, August 2, 2006. Photograph by Rebecca Wynn, uploaded by Albert Herring. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...45-47; see also Robert Cantwell, When We Were Good: The Folk Revival (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996): 328-337. NRA (National Recovery Administration) Blue Eagle Poster. This New Deal program from...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...addition to the father of Francis Tinney, the 1850 Federal census lists several initially plausible candidates in the District of Columbia and Maryland for "William Teney," some or all of...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...as Hearing the Call attests, she possesses multi-generational knowledge about community genealogies predating Creek Removal from ancestral homelands in Alabama and Georgia in 1836 as well as a command of specific family...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...throughout the Americas, having African antecedents, and transmitted by enslaved and free people across the generations.11Jamieson, Ross W., "Material Culture and Social Death: African-American Burial Practices," Historical Archaeology 29 (1995):...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...mass-cultural melting pots. However, the transition from exclusive leisure spot to all-inclusive wonderland often did not happened as quickly, or as easily, or at all. Print advertisement for Lakewood Park,...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...by California-based independent Priority Records — to national prominence, cementing Rap-A-Lot's (and by extension, Houston's) reputation as "a central entity in the southern rap scene, . . . [and] a...