Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...language after-school program they have founded in the city for their children. Guirdex analyzed the first gathering of the International Meeting of Black Artists and Writers at the Sorbonne in...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...the Water and Keeping the Faith dealing with African-derived religious culture of Haiti, "Vodou in the Magic City: Serving the Spirits across the Sea," demonstrates a broad understanding of religious...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Atlanta, 1880–1950. The symposium seeks to convene an interdisciplinary meeting of scholars and activists to learn from and act on research about Atlanta, including the central city and its metropolitan...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...well, especially as he conjoins a metropolitan perspective that unites city and suburbs with the nuanced interplay of de facto and de jure segregation that sits at the very heart...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...which got bookings and publicity out of the shock value. But as Athens groups like Pylon, Love Tractor, R.E.M., and Oh-OK followed the B’52’s in playing important new music clubs...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...lynchings occurred, it was undergoing a process of change into a "New South" city. In the late nineteenth century, the population had grown alongside new factories, mills, and other industrial...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...Oklahoma, landmark and source of civic pride: the Big Peanut? Howe details the mysterious theft of "the sacred nut," a "gray, four-foot-long heavy cast-aluminum statue" presented to the city by...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...red velvet wedding jackets, banjos, hand-carved walking canes, soccer jerseys, foreign-language newspapers, real estate brochures entreating “Come to Virginia!” The exhibit emphasizes the multiplicity of reasons immigrants came to Virginia...
The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
..."is both a reminder of the city’s revival after Hurricane Katrina, and the suffering and loss that happened under its roof during and after the storm," the outage brought to...