Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...(two suspects), Busamente (one suspect), Rodrigues (one suspect), Ruiz (one suspect), Garcia (one suspect), Lopez (one suspect), Campos (one suspect), Belasques (one suspect), Torres (one suspect), Spinoza (one suspect), and...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...owner, you know, to do work, especially for a lot of owners that don't want to do [it] themselves, you know, and sometimes when we do that kind of work,...
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...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...more vulnerable, more likely to be torn apart through forced removal. A marriage at the mercy of two slave owners meant twice the number of men with the opportunity of...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...underway) of the Great Migration of southern blacks to northern, midwestern, and western cities.16The Great Migration refers to the movement of roughly six million African Americans out of the South...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...of other activist groups both in New Orleans and throughout the world. I offer here an ethnographic introduction to New Orleans rap as cultural production that continues to work to...
Religion and the US South
...Southern Baptist or African Methodist Episcopal, Episcopalian or Pentecostal. From early settlement, religious forms adapted to a stratifying social reality but also enabled southerners to give voice to yearnings that...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...kind. The only style of music that we had anything to do with was our style of [hymn] singing, our style of Sacred Harp. I never had anything to do...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
County White Alone, #, 2000 White Alone, %, 2000 Black Alone, #, 2000 Black Alone, %, 2000 Chattahoochee 8,643 58.08 4,453 29.92 Clay 1,290 38.43 2,030 60.47 Decatur 16,126...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...rotating selection on our home page’s nameplate. We selected these images from the newly digitized Library of Congress collection of Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs. This collection...