African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...primarily through new home construction during the post war period Part 4: Dr. Wiese refers to postwar growth on Atlanta’s west side to illustrate how self-contained Black neighborhoods emerged Part 5: Dr....
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...clarity, readability, richer multimedia, and a mobile-friendly responsive layout. The new site also introduces a dynamic, open source journal publishing platform constructed with the widely used Drupal 7 content management...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...virtually unrecognizable to those accustomed only to seeing plantations in the Delta or Carolina Piedmont. Whereas in most other places—as the work of Jonathan D. Martin, Calvin Schermerhorn, and others...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the myth that black people were biologically, intellectually, and socially inferior to whites—these intellectuals sought to refute this myth through their writings and publications. By...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...time, a bit of a pariah. But it's not like he's the only Black queer person dating white guys. I think him feeling like a bit of a pariah has...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...especially, of African Americans in the early twentieth century. In the late 1800s, a "colored" high school opened in LaFollette that served, at its peak, nearly one hundred African American...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Wild Planet, the group finally released Mesopotamia in early 1982, a David Byrne–produced recording that ended up being an EP because the band simply did not have enough new material....
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...Stephen Bishop's notoriously flirtatious ways. As an 1843 piece by abolitionist and author Lydia Maria Child reports, Stephen "is extremely attentive, and peculiarly polite to the ladies" (419).17Lydia Maria Child,...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...makeup artists in most movies is provided by time itself, a commodity that seemingly stretches out endlessly before and behind us, but that no one has enough of, especially in...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...