Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...made it outside the city. In a prelude to the expansive years, the early 1990s saw a number of national chart-climbing, "one-hit-wonder" releases from Atlanta-based or -connected artists, including D-Roc's...
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...
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...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...John Meigs Collection, no. 83.01, Oklahoma City Historical Society Research Center, Oklahoma City, Ok (hereafter OCHS). The federal records pertinent to the Running Waters Council are in 25th Cong., 2nd...
Residues of Border Control
...Security boxes, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010. Susan Harbage Page, Department of Homeland Security box with label, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010. Personal belongings boxes labeled by the Department of Homeland Security still contain...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...York numbered approximately eight-hundred-thousand residents. Atlanta, by comparision, had a population of just above nine-thousand residents, making it the ninety-ninth largest city in America behind Hoboken, New Jersey; Columbus, Georgia;...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...industry developed across the city, attracting immigrant labor. At the same time, Nashville’s service economy grew and created new demand for low-wage workers. The Music City in the late-twentieth century...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Wal-Mart—and there are Wal-Marts in Mexico—are almost the equivalent in US dollars to what they are in this country. We think that they are cheap here, but there they are...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...not an American city. It was a Caribbean city. Once you recalibrate, it becomes the best governed, cleanest, most efficient, and best-educated city in the Caribbean. New Orleans is actually...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...to commemorate the slave sale.54Allynne Tosca Owens, City Planner, City of Savannah, personal communication, March 2, 2009. The city's actions were prompted by Monifa Johnson, a niece of Mayor Otis...