The US South and the 2008 Election
...the early twenty-first century, has been the mainstay of conservative populism for the past four decades. Republican politicians have successfully pitted "liberal elites" against "middle America," or as Phillips himself...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...statute represents the best of America, it is the Voting Rights Act. It marries two great ideals: democracy and racial equality," she writes.9Regrettably, in referring to the origins of the...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
Introduction Map of Main Indian Removal Routes from James W. Clay, Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989). On May 28, 1830 America’s long-standing policy...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993), Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (University Press of Mississippi, 1995), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...can run but you can’t hide forever!” America, we must respect and uphold “The Rule of Law.” Directions From Atlanta: Take I-20 East Exit 82 at Conyers-Athens (Highway 138). Turn...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993) and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (Norton, 2000). Forthcoming books include A...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...the busiest national airport) also drive economic growth.3A. Hansen, "Black and White and the Other: International Immigration and Change in Metropolitan Atlanta" inBeyond the Gateway: Immigrants in a Changing America,...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...organization's Board of Directors from 1986 to 1996, and edited Uncoverings, the group's annual volume of research papers from 1987 to 1983. She also edited Quiltmaking in America: Beyond the...