"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...weight and time. A narrow corridor leads to an open-air courtyard and an even narrower stairway that winds its way up to the second floor, where the booming bass of...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...in Hot Springs in search of food and shelter. Without money, she made her way to a bus station where a police officer found her "in a very serious condition."...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...by hearing her mother, Carrie Hickox Conner, who grew up in the Okefenokee south of Waycross, Georgia.22Delorese Conner Lee, phone interview by Laurie Kay Sommers, 8 July 2009. When Delorese...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...Points neighborhood, ten minutes from downtown Atlanta—and a group of people who shared a set of values and a way of life: primarily young, white, middle-class lesbians.4A few members of...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...11, 2008. See also Steve Herrick, "'Weeping Time' Park - Savannah, GA," Waymark, August 14, 2008. http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM4EVX, accessed October 11, 2008. See also the Georgia Historical society website for the announcement...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...of an argument. When talking about region, we all think we know what we're talking about, and we tend to use the word in scores of different ways, and that...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...1990s, Atlanta was bested by only San Francisco as a magnet for college educated workers in the coveted twenty-five to thirty-four age bracket. Recent numbers indicate that the region's advantage...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...way of pay for the value of the dead slave. At once he went to the home of the Twins hoping to make the best settlement possible. Imagine his surprise...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...wedding photos, family photos, travel photos, scores of newspaper clippings, publicity material, ID cards, VHS cassettes of television appearances. His life was in those boxes, tucked away but ready for...
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...