A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...legislators passed the Transportation Investment Act of 2010 (TIA). The legislation carved the state into twelve transportation districts and charged elected officials in each with assembling a list of projects...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...sold tickets to Lucina's Music concerts; they kept a list of apartments or houses for rent in the neighborhood; and then, of course, people would run into one another there....
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...has the cachet to get A-list acts to join in on the inanity."97Murray, "Lil Jon, Crew Crank Up Chant with A-List Assist." Clearly, some reviewers wished the obnoxious music would...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...lower Canada with concentrated populations of white fundamentalist evangelicals.5For more on the demographic profile of southern gospel see Harrison, Then Sings My Soul, 175–180. Among these people, "the term southern...
Writing Appalachia
...region's literature isn't available. Poems, short stories, and novels are available electronically from a myriad of websites; however, even today's computer-savvy readers and students can flounder when the material they...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Guatemala. And while men still make up the majority of Maya migrants, a growing number of women and children have joined husbands, fathers, and brothers in Georgia, resulting in a...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...the ways in which capitalist development, urbanization, migration, and the expansion of state power have shaped and transformed gender, family, and race/ethnic relations. Odem's first book, Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...health.84Between 1922 and 1932, the number of African American visitors listed in the "unskilled labor" category was "nearly twice as high" as the comparable figure for whites. O.C. Wenger, "An...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...