African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...were evaporating. Herndon tried to rescue her efforts, appealing to David Belasco. But in spite of her repeated attempts to schedule a meeting, Belasco was unavailable. Had he changed his...
"Aint that Something?"
...gives his characters the gift of change and openness. There is a grace these characters possess, like fat Denny climbing so fast up the tree, like a bear, to save...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
Family Forestry https://vimeo.com/126311195 Part 1: November 6, 2001: Leavell describes basic procedures involved in a timber harvest, namely selection and organization into wood types. https://vimeo.com/126311196 Part 2: March 3, 2002:...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...compelled to contend and collaborate with one another constantly on the overlapping, interlocked terrain of neighborhoods. To examine how neighborhoods change our understanding of slave society, consider the ways this...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...bureaucrats pressured local Texas medical authorities to change their restrictive smallpox inoculation policies. Texas's United States Public Health Service (USPHS) officials, however, defied the request to respect Mexican nationals and...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...Boots and on the road.3See the riff on the “gospel impulse,” in Craig Werner, A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race, and Soul of America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...to a close. Virginia and the South have changed in profound ways in the fifty years following that centennial, but the burden of explaining the Civil War remains. Virginia’s Sesquicentennial...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...The excerpts document experiences and events that occurred during the 1950s and 1960s, decades of significant social and cultural change nationally. The economic, political, and social landscape of Atlanta transformed...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...because the private sector could not meet the needs of the lowest income tenants—either in quantity or affordability of rental units. This has not changed. Even as HUD approved the...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...ten years. Three primary factors account for this recent, unrelenting increase in the South: demographic changes, state economic problems, and a history of persistent poverty and low income. Several southern...