Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...The coastal areas, in contrast, seem to embrace a more Caribbean manner, where social life readily includes alcohol. The architectural styles of the Caribbean and coastal Carolinas offer other important...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...city's premier barber, had substantial business earnings and real estate, qualifying by any measure for upper income status. The institutional development of Black Atlanta was as phenomenal as its business...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...in her bag. It is also, after Walker Evans, not a very promising place to try to make an original photograph. The color—the lime green dress—is the key. The dress...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...On the plight of the black soldier, Baldwin writes that he was "almost always given the hardest, ugliest, most menial work to do."2Baldwin, "Letter from a Region." After the war,...
The Black Belt
...Alabama constitution, concluded historian Wayne Flynt, would keep Alabama "throughout the twentieth century at or near the bottom among all states in . . . property taxes, public services, and...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...and early 1970s. He starred on the Chiefs's Super Bowl–winning team in 1969, was voted to the All-Time American Football League (AFL) team and the National Football League (NFL) All-Decade...
Congregation
Congregation https://vimeo.com/134849755 Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Congregation," 2010. View poem text here. National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast About Natasha Trethwey...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...in the towns and cities. However, deep discount mortgages, the hyping of homeownership for all, and banks' bundling of high-risk debt, proved a devastating financial sleight-of-hand. The resulting economic crisis...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...narrative to leaven her historical treatment of black DC, and includes several extended oral histories that add flavor to Go-Go Live. This wide-ranging approach, however, leaves little room for nuance...
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...