Birth Right
...the average charge for a home birth with a certified midwife was almost $1,000 compared to over $5,000 when a woman delivered using an obstetrician in the hospital.4Center for Health...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946–1988, and LeeAnn Lands, Associate Professor of American Studies and History, Kennesaw State University and author of The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1963. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. The building remained in use for decades afterward, housing women's athletics and the Department of Kinesiology...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...mob, but the soldiers did little to prevent the raid, refusing to fire their guns. Once inside, the mob freed all the white prisoners, roughed up and "interrogated" the suspects,...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...the same. What changed were matters of strategy, tactics, and language as the ground of the struggle was reconstituted in the wake of white flight and segregation in housing across...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...August 23 to August 30, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed though New Orleans, causing the levees to break, devastating a large part of the Crescent City. To mark the seventh anniversary...
Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities
...Pooley examined Atlanta's population shifts, suburbanization patterns, and school performance. Pooley argued that the region's increasingly suburban African American population continues to face segregated housing patterns that undercut their ability...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...is of course implied here.) Walker's critique of Faulkner's fiction using his public pronouncements in advocating gradualism in relation to change in racist policies as a lens for critique is...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...huddled discussion off St. Claude Avenue after the storm; Blackwater private security trucks; an occupant in front of his B.W. Cooper housing project apartment and that same apartment closed in...
Remnants of Flannery
...http://bittersoutherner.com/flannery-oconnor-walks-among-us-still. And yet, focusing on the entirety of O'Connor's legacy—the full portrait—ignores the ways in which she actually moved through the world. Nearly all of the images in the zine...