"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
..."the cultural system of ideas about social and linguistic relationships, together with their loading of moral and political interests."5Judith T. Irvine, "When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy," American...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...new memories based on Atlanta's LGBTQ past. Watch video of Memory Flash courtesy of the G Channel. Map of John Q discursive memorial sites, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010. Printable version. Click...
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
...bring together research projects, resources, and information about the Atlanta metro region and inspire new scholarship. Atlanta Studies (www.AtlantaStudies.org), which launched Feb. 16, is an open-access online publication that features...
Memphis, Tennessee images
...from downtown Memphis to Mud Island River Park. FedExForum from Beale Street Shown under construction, FedExForum is home to the National Basketball Association's Memphis Grizzlies, as well as the University...
A City Divided
...racially homogeneous park-neighborhoods such as Ansley Park and Druid Hills, marked a turn toward an Atlanta increasingly characterized by residential segregation. Library of Congress, Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 1907. A...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...January 8, 2016, http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2016/01/08/herman-j-russell-s-old-home-hits-the-market.html; Kimberly Turner,"House Envy: Andrew Young reminisces on Herman J. Russell's 1963 Home," Atlanta Magazine, January 20, 2016, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/homeandgarden/house-envy-andrew-young-reminisces-on-herman-j-russell-1963-home/. The founder of H.J. Russell & Co. was...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
Confederate and Union troops in close combat, Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Painting by the Atlanta Panorama Company. As the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta approaches,...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...and similarly split districts in surrounding Davidson County, under Superintendent J. E. Moss. In round numbers, there were about ten thousand black students and twenty thousand whites in the city...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...She was furthering her drama studies and was also escaping Atlanta, a city that had just undergone the worst racial violence in Georgia. In the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906,...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
Atlanta rap artist Jack Preston takes the stage at Gallery 72, Atlanta, Georgia, October 18, 2015. Photograph by Clint Fluker. Courtesy of LiFT Art Salon. In collaboration with ELEVATE, Atlanta's annual...