African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...depth. Since race is pervasive in American society, a wide variety of topics and research strategies would be fruitful for study. The development of the African American community in Atlanta,...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...and the five different names she used are emblematic of the fragmentation and reorganization of personhood Anglo-American women undergo as they travel through the American tropics. Allewaert convincingly argues that...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...local places (and abstract spaces) would mean something different to indigeneous groups than to colonizing powers (4). Citing Keith Basso's Wisdom Sits in Places—a favorite among historians of American Indians—she...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...proportion of African Americans and Latinos facing isolation has risen for both groups in the Atlanta Metro region. In 1994/95, 70.1% of African American high schoolers living in the Atlanta...
The Shenandoah Valley
...a distinct region of the American South with a geography that has encouraged in-migration, land and industrial development, and trade. The Shenandoah Valley has a habit of confounding and surprising...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...wedding photos, family photos, travel photos, scores of newspaper clippings, publicity material, ID cards, VHS cassettes of television appearances. His life was in those boxes, tucked away but ready for...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Surveillance Files, 1947–1980. Since African Americans were not human, according to the NSRP, miscegenation would result in an inferior mongrel race. Yet even though African Americans were a serious threat,...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...of a number of other groups and activities.10Information about ALFA and related groups and activities is based on the ALFA Newsletter, renamed the Atalanta (ALFA Newsletter/Atalanta, newsletter of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance,...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...the Midwest. Ten minutes later he has forgotten and again assumes I have been traveling through the South."5James W. Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. (New York: The New...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...and Slavery in a Georgia Community, Working Paper #2, Sloan Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life, Emory University, 2001 and Mark Auslander, "Dreams Deferred: African-Americans in the History...