Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...Director of the Southern Student Human Relations Project of the US National Student Association. She served as an advisor on the executive committee of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),...
Birdhouses
...significance. Having lived my life in the US South, growing up in rural South Carolina as a descendent of generations of subsistence farmers on both sides of my family, I...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...Asian immigrants settled near a handful of geographic centers along the West and East coasts and the Southwest of the United States, but in recent decades immigrants have increasingly gravitated...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...of the plantation South. His romantic histories, beginning with Fabulous New Orleans, and followed quickly by Father Mississippi and Old Louisiana, all authored during a literary sojourn in New York...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...were born before or during World War II and lived in Atlanta or the US South during most of their adulthood or at least prior to the late 1960s. The...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...constrain the work of healing or moving beyond the unritual.5bell hooks, "Beyoncé's Lemonade is capitalist money-making at its best," in The Guardian, May 11, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/11/capitalism-of-beyonce-lemonade-album. As bell hooks points...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...Studying Plant Disease, ca. 1930–1943, Tuskegee, Alabama. George Washington Carver, an agricultural scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor, sought to ease sharecroppers' dependence on cotton by researching and promoting alternative crops....
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...in a multi-media environment that engaged artists, activists, and academics in dialogue about innovative Atlanta projects.2 "The South Got Something to Say" refers to Andree 3000's acceptance speech at the 1995 Source Awards. "Outkast winning Best New...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...white Kentuckians were more likely to identify themselves as southern. See George C. Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990) 5, 70–72, 118–19. "Of about...