The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
Public Health Crossings Top, Colonel Bailey K. Ashford, ca. 1893. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, William H. Hunt, Governor of Puerto Rico, 1901–1904. Courtesy of...
Georgia Postcard
I. Atlanta The black men are fine and abundant at the airport. The women have spent many hours on their hair. II. Sixty-Five MPH All-u-can eat, boiled shrimp, fried fish....
Quilting Conversation
...Corporation, and the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport). She is a teaching artist affiliated with the High Museum, VSA arts of Georgia, the Atlanta Partnership for the Arts in Learning, and the...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...heat for hours to get into 'The Super Store,' a schlockery where you can buy the same official Olympic merchandise you can buy in the Kansas City airport. Speaking of...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...even Disney tickets. A bus or van would pick up the prospective buyers at the airport and shuttle them to the site. "Ask any of the old-timers why they picked...
Deep Ellum Blues
Introduction The railroads made Dallas, Texas into a city, highways made it a Sunbelt city, and DFW Airport made it an international city. Never much known for making things, it...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...emotion at the Cape Town Airport as we headed home. South African Dennis Swarz told us to nurture those "ordinary moments when extraordinary things can happen," including sporting events and...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a walking cane long before he needed one for support. He once crawled through an airport security checkpoint on his hands and knees after the attendant insisted on x-raying his...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...City,” Huntsville, this was a region without gigantic airports, gleaming bank headquarters, tangled roadways, and spaghetti junctions. By the 1970s, when several band members reached high school, it was a...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...the busiest national airport) also drive economic growth.3A. Hansen, "Black and White and the Other: International Immigration and Change in Metropolitan Atlanta" inBeyond the Gateway: Immigrants in a Changing America,...