Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...process, vastly expand—the power of Jim Crow. Bureaucrats in Washington learned to respect southern segregationists' power over the purse and avoid overt challenges to segregation.1Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: The New...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Helped Give Birth to Punk Rock," Washington Post, May 3, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-the-kent-state-massacre-changed-music/2018/05/03/b45ca462-4cb6-11e8-b725-92c89fe3ca4c_story.html. See also the publication D.I.Y: The Do-It-Yourself New Music Magazine, published in Manhattan Beach, California, in 1980 and...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...the newly opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC. Evidently a seed sack made of unbleached cotton fabric dating to the mid-nineteenth century,...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...the Business of Broadcasting in America. (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1980), 153. "Unlike other major technologies—automobiles . . . or trains—that move us from one place to another,"...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...(Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1975), 25–6. In comparison with many other southern rabbis, however, Rothschild encountered little recrimination from a congregation generally in sympathy with his stance. Those who...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...oblige, enfolding Indian children into their domestic spaces and the white and black worlds that shaped them. Map of the Indian tribes of North America about 1600 AD, Washington DC,...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the winter months, and invest their gains in labor-saving machinery, such as tractors. Between 1936 and 1941, the Bootheel's tenancy rate—which measured the number of those who did not own...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...Atlanta: 'The City without Limits' Faces Some," in Gregory D. Squires, ed. Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses (Washington DC: The Urban Institute Press, 2002); Adie Tomer and Jessica...