New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...number of jobs more than tripling between 1980 and 2000. The crucial characteristic of Atlanta's economy is its industrial diversity, with no one sector dominating employment.2M.L Owens and M.J. Rich,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...meeting place of men famous in Georgia affairs." Notable patrons included politician and former Confederate general Robert Toombs; former Atlanta mayor Captain J.W. English; and Atlanta Constitution editors Henry Grady...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...be accepted, or at least tolerated. Atlanta Gay Rights Alliance and others leading the Pride parade, Atlanta, Georgia, June 27, 1977. Atlanta-Journal Constitution courtesy of Georgia State University Library. Even...
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...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...immigration. In 1991, when the earliest footage was shot, most east Tennessee residents were not aware of the growing numbers of Latino immigrants. But some of the women on the...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...singular identity and consider the intersections where black-gay-men struggle to exist in places such as Miami and Atlanta. Jenkins structures Moonlight in a tripartite way, beginning with "Little" and ending...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...Clark, Spelman, Morehouse, and Morris Brown colleges and Atlanta University. Atlanta had become a regional center for Black higher education. When Booker T. Washington delivered his "Atlanta Compromise" speech at...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...County, State of Georgia, United States, Including Numerous Incidents of More Than Local Interest, 1540–1922 (Atlanta, GA: The Webb and Vary Co., 1922), 33–4; Jerry R. Desmond, Georgia's Rome: A Brief...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...cameras into a series of 360-degree videos.3Janko Roettgers, "Google Is Shutting Down Its Jump VR Video Program," Variety (blog), May 18, 2019, https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/google-jump-shutting-down-1203219306/. We used the Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone...