Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...sprung up alongside the highways, where you could get gas, buy a hot dog and candy plus stock up on concrete lawn statues and souvenir mugs and gaudy T-shirts."1http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/14/sports/sports-of-the-times-atlanta-sends-up-the-balloons.html In...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...impacts are good or bad, or both—because many of them make their living by MTR. In West Virginia, a 2002 study by the Flood Advisory Technical Task Force noted a...
Religion and the US South
...Anglican ministers had respected social and political authority and allied themselves with the gentry, and upper-class southerners would long admire the Anglican embrace of social class differences, along with paternalistic...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...last minute adjustments, the local leader cracked for his audience, "I thought maybe they had to get Martin Luther King off the air before we could start."25Danville Bee, November 16,...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...lines found elsewhere in their repertoire as well as in the broader spiritual tradition. The lines "Ole Satan mad and I am glad" and "Satan thought he had me fast,"...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...had a public screening, advertised well in advance so there was no turning back. Since that screening we have fixed and fiddled with a few things, but most of the...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Docbuzz: L'Autre Information Santé, November 13, 2010, accessed July 2, 2014, http://www.docbuzz.fr/2010/11/13/123-le-diabete-explose-en-france-2-fois-plus-de-diabetiques-dans-les-dom-tom-qu%E2%80%99en-metropole. For the diabetes epidemics in the Caribbean, also see Ludmilla F. Wikkeling-Scott, "Addressing Diabetes, A Regional Epidemic in...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...or consequence of such silence. On the one hand, the contemporaneous frontpage spread in the Times-Picayune had broken a multigenerational "social compact" whereby New Orleans dominant society had tolerated queer...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States (1995), examines the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...early 1980s, day laborers had little political power. By 2005, even though day laborers had found the attention of attorneys, legislators, activists, and workplace justice advocates, effective solutions for their...