"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
...In the 1830s alone, nearly three in ten enslaved people living in the state were forcibly removed from the Tidewater region. In the decade immediately preceding the Civil War, a...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...in public schools. Just as the Atlanta region's increasing suburbanization of minority group members has not translated into the greater integration of its neighborhoods, so too has it not translated...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...I do appreciate the cemetery for its wider purpose, I cannot help but recognize that the place owes its existence to a slave plantation founded in 1802 by George Washington...
Religion and the US South
...in private educational institutions, independent associations, and interdenominational groups. Reform and Reaction in Sectional Religion, 1940–2000 Top, Atlanta Hare Krishna New Panihati Dham temple, Atlanta, Georgia, 2014. Still by Anandi...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...this discussion to one community. As I illustrate in the essay, this is a regional tradition found in both southeast Georgia and northeast Florida. I pay particular attention to factors...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...need to nurture the idea of reviewing, critiquing, and writing about visual art. It is important, because art movements are rarely reported on in real time. For this reason, I enjoy...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...I saw how, with the best intentions, people would attempt to implement change, perhaps win a victory, and then watch it slide away in a year or two because institutional...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...as Jheri had requested, I rang her eighty-six-year-old mother back in Smith County, Mississippi. Reverting to my old southern accent, I said, "Miz Jones? This is John Howard. I'm calling...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...susceptible to DDT-induced illness. From existing letters, it's unclear if this is how they felt from the start, or whether they developed this idea in response to official dismissals of...