"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...
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...
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
...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...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...LiFT Art Salon. According to Michael Kahn of ArtsATL, the lobby of the building was reimagined following AJC’s departure to "be a catalyst for a renaissance of the once prominent Atlanta thoroughfare."7Ibid....
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...Who is your us? When I say toil, who do you think of? When I say steal, who do you think of? Who is your we? And as you reflect...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...institutions historically hostile to LGBTI people. During one of my latest trips to the University of Mississippi, someone pointed out that there were raids on LGBT students, specifically on gay...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...employing the rationale of proven-benefits-to-the-many outweighing reported-risks-to-the-few, state health officials responded to Colson and Plyler. Regional medical director Lundquist said that he had had the opportunity to "closely observe the...