An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...amidst "imperial decline and the sound of cowboy bluster," it was essential. "If there is any conceivable 'rock 'n' roll future,'" he argued, it lay "in the intrinsic values of...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...States is the marimba and its music. In Guatemala, the marimba is a key symbol of indigenous identity and it continues to play an important role in community life for...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...as Jheri had requested, I rang her eighty-six-year-old mother back in Smith County, Mississippi. Reverting to my old southern accent, I said, "Miz Jones? This is John Howard. I'm calling...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...time it was owned by Providence Life and Accident Insurance Co. until it was sold to Asian investors and transformed into the Great Mall of China. In 1998, Florida-based Sembler...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...sites of immigrant settlement in suburban Atlanta Part 5: Increased surveillance andcontrol of immigrant workers in Georgia Part 6: The construction of Latino spaces and communities, specifically Latin American Catholicism in the...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...the mills—and the union—survived the 1980s. WestPoint Pepperell, Inc. bought J. P. Stevens in a leveraged buyout in 1988 and broke the corporation into three separate businesses. The mills in...
Love and Death at Second-Line
..."It'll be easier at the vendor outside." He said, "No man, this is Papa Joe's place, buy it from him." I waved the bills over my head, Joe himself saw...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Write about us as if we were interconnected, as if what happens in the coalfields impacts you, and as if we mattered. Because it does, and we do. The essay...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...the least thing he is interested in is a well-chosen word in English. Some people may think it odd to hear Lot’s wife referred to as "Old Lady Lot." Church...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...convinced that I understood the documentary process well enough. Although I had conducted many interviews at GPB, I was nervous that I wasn't properly prepared. But what I was most...