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
...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 dramatically...
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...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...and indigo plantations, as well as at his Charleston home on Meeting Street. As a reminder that racism persists in many guises, even as it changes form, Page's installation links...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...Mexican Americans, these black activists argued, had fought for white rights for decades. Why had they suddenly changed tactics? For African Americans, the answer to this question lay in the...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...social, cultural, and economic changes that created the atmosphere of "beachy tropicality and Caribbean escapism" that characterize Bourbon Street's continuous parade in the twenty-first century (228). In between, he traces...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...restore or maintain the forest's original domain across the South. In discussing private ownership of forests and wood production, the authors do not account for the enormous changes of recent...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...he declared, were separate species and nothing could change one into the other. Mulattoes were a "degenerate Hybrid race" (97). They might be more intelligent than pure Negroes but they...
Besieged Terrain
...suggest that the forest would make a good site for the study of the effects of climate change, and they favor forest management using a type of selective logging that...