"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
The government blew the levees / I used that Katrina water to master my flow. —Hollygrove Mikey, "Make Medicine Sick"1"Hollygrove Mikey, The Ca$hius Clay Tape," http://hollygrovemikey.bandcamp.com/. Lil Wayne plays...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...col. 2, Valley of the Shadow online, http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/news/vv1866/va.au.vv.1866.02.21.xml#03; U.D. Poe to P.P. Cleveland, April 30, 1867, Valley of the Shadow online, http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/papers/B0192 source available NARA BRFAL, RG 105; P. Cleveland...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...a broader movement of people who either fled the bonds of slavery or struck out on their own as free blacks to seize a greater range of choices opened by...
Religion and the US South
...and empowering the poor and marginalized. Southern religion has supported a peculiar variety of religious pluralism within the United States, allowing for religious minorities to flourish. Forms of religion identified...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
Introduction Recording of "Coronation" #63 sung by Hoboken Sacred Harp Singers, led by Silas Lee, Florida Folk Festival. Courtesy of Florida Folklife Collection, State Library of Florida, May 4, 1958. Music...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Denard, Clint Fluker, and Nasim Mahboubi Fluker) at the live podcast recording with the Digital Good Times crew, Gallery 72, Atlanta, Georgia, October 18, 2015. Photograph by LehBo. Courtesy of...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...sprawled out with loading docks, storage tanks, parking lots, seems like another world to you. As does the perhaps the little store nearby, la tienda La Mochoacanda, sitting in Vance...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...in 1999. Doug Mitchell was the key editor, a towering figure in queer publishing. After that, various ideas were floated about how to reach a broader public. Several people recommended...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
Introduction DDT is good for me advertisement, Time, June 30, 1947. Scan by Flickr user Crossett Library. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Early in 1949, Dottie Colson wrote to...