Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities
...Pooley examined Atlanta's population shifts, suburbanization patterns, and school performance. Pooley argued that the region's increasingly suburban African American population continues to face segregated housing patterns that undercut their ability...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Press, 2015); Gabrielle Hecht, Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012); Joseph Masco, The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New...
The Change
...their slaves they brought from Africa when they sold our ancestors as slaves in the Middle East, that then the tobacco was sacred to all of us and we prayed...
Gold Records in Deep Space
The more that traces of American roots music are turned into prized relics, the more lifeless the music becomes. Only by acknowledging roots music's ephemeral and fragile qualities do its...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Rebuilding the Land of Dreams Video Part 2: Spitzer discusses “The Basin Street Blues” and prominent representations of New Orleanians in the realms of work and play Part 3: Spitzer discusses how...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...(2019): 21–37, https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2018.1468745; and Tara L. Parker and Kathleen M. Neville, "The Influence of Racial Identity on White Students' Perceptions of African American Faculty," The Review of Higher Education 42,...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...century's greatest examples of such struggle: the African-American liberation movement, the women's liberation movement, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender liberation movements—all symbols and symptoms of the larger human...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...of the striking miners are African American, and he felt a strong spirit of solidarity across racial lines. The miners Dixon spoke with were upbeat, ready to keep fighting for...
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...studies; critical regional studies; African American, Indigenous, and American studies; women's and gender studies; LGBTQ studies, public health; and social justice. A digital publication, Southern Spaces provides an open access...
The Place of Appalachia
...in Whitesburg, Kentucky, has creatively used its community radio station, film-making, and theater troupe to explore how poor, rural Appalachians and poor, inner-city African Americans have been pitted against each...