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...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...a feature on National Public Radio's All Things Considered last year. I suspect that for those of us who keep urban flocks to connect an environmental ethos with a passion...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...other natural markers which have long since disappeared. Kim Severson of The New York Times reported that the two states formed a joint boundary commission in the mid-1990s after a...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...professor of history at Emory University and the author of In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton, 2007). Along with Matthew Lassiter of the University of...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...upper crust, was courting Genevieve Williams when her two sisters—Nell and Augusta—were attacked on Shades Mountain, approximately nine miles south of downtown Birmingham. Augusta, along with her friend Jennie Wood,...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...Greene. referring to Campanella's glib reference to people apparently comparing Bywater to the Brooklyn neighborhood. This commenter criticizes Campanella's characterization (using statistics) of the Bywater as taking a turn toward...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...these studies affirms that we can no longer think only, or even first, of Anglos living along the Atlantic seaboard when we consider early American knowledge production and circulation (6)....
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
Review Max Grivno's subtle and remarkably textured history of labor in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason Dixon Line, 1790–1860, details...
Zircon
...measured rate. The zircon lasts when mother rocks around have crumbled, worn away to sand. It keeps the fingerprints of isotopes from clouds of the original primordial dust, right here...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....