Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...related to day labor with the greatest proportion of fatalities were construction (first place) with eighteen percent and manufacturing at fifteen percent (third place). The occupation of day laborers had...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...men Gilmer consulted about the number of companies and their placement. James Gamble to George R. Gilmer, March 16, 1838, "Cherokee Removal Letters," www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gachatto/corr/cherokee.htm; Thomas G. MacFarland to George R....
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...“Utilization of Social Networks for Immigrant Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of Korean Immigrants in the Atlanta Area,” International Review of Sociology 10, no. 3 (2000): 347-363. In a South where...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and GQ, and selected for the anthologies Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and The O. Henry Awards' Prize Stories. His...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...equation. After winning the first modern war against China in 1895, Japan shocked the international powers with its victory over a Western nation, Russia, in 1905. Meanwhile, the increasing flow...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...up pretty rough and a lot of them does the best they can do and they take it as if you take the worst you can find to make a...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...of its place and its people—those who have worked there as partners or staff, those who have shopped there, and those who have given their time to support the store....
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...a place," it does not—in other words, naming a place does not necessarily effectually "place" the place. Naming places or trying to name them is perhaps an inevitable practice on...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...older conception of place than the "anti-essentialist construction" of place defined and claimed by cultural geographers.6Doreen Massey, Space, Place and Gender (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994), 121. But Massey's take on...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...simply, these poets represent race as emplaced experience, as a phenomenon "ineluctably place-bound."6Edward S. Casey, "How to Get From Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time: Phenomenological Prolegomena,"...