The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...Stories emerged over years. Different plot lines seemed to come about quite naturally. And the family grew more trusting of Moby and the entire endeavor. More could be said and...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...meant that he had limited access to information about their safety and use; moreover, most of the information he did have access to, on DDT in particular, reflected the health...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Unearthing their worlds sheds light on a distinct history of emancipation that did not fully align with liberalism's trajectory, pushing us to move away from the teleological notion that modern...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...and roller skating rinks…characterized by its dynamism — its brash colors, constant noise, and continual movement of people and machinery."1Lauren Rabinovitz, For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies and Culture in...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...from Bringing Down the Mountains The most divisive and controversial environmental issue facing Central Appalachia today is mountaintop removal surface coal mining. Obtaining coal by mountaintop removal (MTR) obliterates Appalachian...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...shelters. Some found refuge in low-rent daily, weekly, or monthly rental units; and still others shared cramped quarters in apartments and sent money to their families in Mexico, Central America,...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
..."Mexican Hypothesis" or the "Mexican Vector model," this is the most prominent interpretation for marijuana prohibition in the United States. For more on these terms, see Himmelstein, The Strange Career...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...cultural life while revealing the poverty that an exploitative mining economy created. Clip from Roscoe Halcomb, "Across the Rocky Mountains," Disc One, Mountain Music of Kentucky CD, Smithsonian Folkways CD...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...a global superstar. Big Freedia is a critical darling of bounce, New Orleans's dance-centric rap genre. Cash Money bling remains lodged in the pop culture psyche while Young Money, though...
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...