Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...migrants is part of what demographers are calling the New Great Migration,15Dan Bilefsky, "For New Life, Blacks in City Head to South," New York Times, June 22, 2011, A1, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/nyregion/many-black-new-yorkers-are-moving-to-the-south.html;...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...2012; Kim Severson, "For Transit Relief, Congested Atlanta Ponders a Penny Tax," The New York Times, July 15, 2012, accessed September 6, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/us/atlanta-area-residents-to-vote-on-tax-for-transportation.html; Bookman, "The self-induced paralysis of Georgia...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...us. At least she no longer faces the "threat of murder," after her surgery. https://vimeo.com/389587403/1476146255 "They don't pick up the phone and call people anymore." 42:56–43:03 from The Joneses. Bunny...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...2003). That custom could hold any emancipatory power is by many measures surprising. Within the Spanish colonial tradition, uso y costumbres ("usage and customs") had historically referred to continuity and...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...a performance of the comedy "The Lady Slavy" by the forty-five member Giffen Musical Comedy Company. The rest of the park likely opened a few days later on a rainy...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...disparate strands of evidence in Spanish, English, French, and indigenous language sources into a larger tapestry characterized by the irony of communication, she leaves a number of loose ends. Mentioning...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...part-time instructors and using teaching assistants—in many schools, for the majority of teaching work. School systems at every level, like corporations everywhere, are outsourcing different services and jobs to private...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...struggle with the J. P. Stevens corporation. While the episode called attention to Sutton, it also showed many other mill women front and center. A bold, multi-faceted effort, the campaign...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...care, while many working-age coalminers have been laid off, leaving them with few, if any, healthcare options. UMWA surface mine welder repairs dragline bucket. Boone County, WV, 2005. Working at...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...of the least violent acts many of these white men enacted in any given week. Black men, women, and children, as well as many Native people, had long been held...