Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...life in a region where Spanish-speaking migrants and immigrants are variously welcomed, tolerated, and scorned. In recent years, Latin American immigrants comprised the largest population of new arrivals to Atlanta:...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...author. Nan and Maria are enlisted as WACs (Women's Army Corps).26Founded in 1942 as the women's branch of the US Army, the Women's Army Corps existed until 1978, when it...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...affluent areas of the city, including the Garden District and the Uptown/Carrollton area near Tulane University. Based on newspaper reports, the average distance between place of arrest and place of...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...in 2010, and the NOLA Hip-Hop Archive, which I founded in 2012 and is housed at the Amistad Research Center.4The NOLA Hip-Hop Archive is the first university-affiliated rap archive in...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...Formerly enslaved men and women were constantly acting within networks—kinship relations, social hierarchies, labor markets, and bureaucracies—of particular reach, at particular scales, to find whatever stability and autonomy they could...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...near the urban core, and scattered more widely around the metropolitan area," they remain highly segregated.42Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
Essay The tours that I lead at Arlington National Cemetery begin here. We are standing in Section 27, a location in the northeastern corner of the cemetery bordered by the...
Religion and the US South
...had about war, they rallied around the Confederacy and gave moral support through preaching that the southern cause was a holy war. They blessed the troops going off to war...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...far-off places rather than the local singing in an isolated area where most participants are related by blood or marriage” (page 28). I use the term “Sacred Harp network,” after...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...art collective3The LiFT art Collective consists of six young artists who contribute orginal art to the LiFT Art salon each month. The collective includes, Gerald Lovell, Julian Plowden, Doriane Sewell, Jurell...