A City Divided
...City Divided Located just east of Atlanta's central business district in the city's lower Fourth Ward, Jackson Hill housed white New South entrepreneurs and an emerging middle and upper class....
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...how this “accidental city” became one of the most significant urban areas in the Americas. From the beginning, the city’s location caused headaches. After disastrous flooding in 1719, Bienville quickly...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...on to say that Stein's family left Allegheny when she was six months old, and that she has never seen it since—the city itself having ceased to exist, in fact,...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans. At that time, the Neighborhood Gallery was a vital part of the city's black community-based business network....
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...who ate the most bread suffered lasting neurological damage, but all survived.30Richard M. Garrett, "Toxicity of DDT for Man," Journal of the Medical Association of Alabama 17, no. 2 (1947):...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...made a career of heralding the significance of the city's cultural and historic neighborhoods. In Bourbon Street, he turns his attention to the city's most iconic thoroughfare and its development...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Black woman's catching fifteen opossums in Muscogee County, Georgia, in 1877.31"Foraging on our Exchanges," The LaGrange (GA) Reporter, Oct. 11, 1877, 2, https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82015287/1877-10-11/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=10%2F11%2F1877&city=LaGrange&date2=10%2F11%2F1877&words=&searchType=advanced¬text=&index=2&sequence=0&proxdistance=5&rows=12&ortext=&proxtext=&andtext=&page=1. Enslavers may have tolerated—and on occasion, celebrated—antebellum...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...close harmony sung in the ensemble. More deeply, the decline in market share and cultural capital has eroded southern gospel's self-concept and induced a crisis of authenticity. Pamela Fox has...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Spanish city of Cádiz, his first destination in his long exile and political deportation under the colonial regime. Puerta de Tierra, Cádiz, Spain, 2020. Primer punto del itinerario de 'Cádiz...