African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...his PhD from Columbia University in 1993. Prof. Wiese’s areas of interest include the history of housing and residential landscapes, housing policy, suburbanization, and the spatial production of race and...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...had financial ties to the merchant capital, etc., in the North) was also to question the legality of all huge land ownership. And at this very moment the big capitalists,...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...Geography and Map Division, 74693187. Referencing literal as well as metaphorical maps and mapping, Paulett's first chapter persuasively establishes the tension between imperial efforts to control trade and local resistance...
The Chesapeake Bay
Introduction The Chesapeake Bay's environmental history is complex and well-documented. Over four-hundred years of textual records document the Bay's environmental history, and over ten-thousand years of archaeological, geological, and biological...
Dirty Little Story
...litter. I take away all the trash I can carry in the bag I've brought for my own picnic waste. But to clean this site would require heavy equipment and...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...120] Whether or not the handkerchiefs in Rosa's quilt were products of this local factory, similar bandannas would have been widely available in local stores. Construction: Rosa Benson Snoddy framed...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...plywood town, Abernathy and many others were arrested during a sit-in in front of the Capitol. Although Resurrection City had ended, the Poor People’s Campaign would be resurrected for several...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...of traditional civil rights historiography rooted almost exclusively in southern states before the Watts riots, and Gadsden's focus on Delaware also stands alongside previous studies on border states, including Clarence...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...and light specific, and also frost and winter sleep, conditions of particular year, as every instance comes just once with mix of mineral and grease, what Hopkins chose to call...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...and in interior sections of California. The percentage of new legal and illegal Mexicans arriving in California dropped ten percentage points during the 1990s, from an all-time high of fifty-seven...