A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...in recent decades. Between 1960 and 1980, no fewer than 170,000 whites abandoned the city and Atlanta's white population was reduced from two-thirds of the total to a mere third....
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
..."B.C." and daughters Betty and Martha suffered similarly. Before long, she noted that their symptoms were seasonal: they set in when the "big land owners" who owned the fields surrounding...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Butler visited the plantations infrequently, he depended on overseers like Roswell King, Sr., and his son Roswell, Jr., for daily management. Between them, the two Kings managed the Butler plantations...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...first names of immigrants and their family members. They arrived in north Georgia with their four children in 1999 after having lived for ten years in Los Angeles. Better job...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...spirit. If you are interested in the area then you could probably get the same deal on a home in Remington and have a better sense of security and safety....
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...and that southern metal and cotton products would find commercial opportunities in Far Eastern markets.4William H. Taft, "The Winning of the South," Political Issues and Outlooks: Speeches Delivered Between August,...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...social, cultural, and economic changes that created the atmosphere of "beachy tropicality and Caribbean escapism" that characterize Bourbon Street's continuous parade in the twenty-first century (228). In between, he traces...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...and ethnicity. 5. Comparisons in the evolution of Jim Crow between North and South, and between regions within the South. 6. Continuities in institutionalized racism following the Jim Crow period....
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...lasted between forty-five minutes and two hours and were conducted between May 2007 and September 2008.10Trained graduate-student research assistants and I conducted the interviews, and participants provided informed consent beforehand....
Love and Death in Mississippi
...they died. Down in the Delta, the alluvial floodplain between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers in northwest Mississippi, perennially listed as the poorest and most unhealthy region in the country,...