Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...part of a social project that encouraged political participation? What if citizens possessed use-rights over a sustaining landscape? Historians don't often write legislation. My attempt is consistent with the argument...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...live tours of James Joyce's Dublin that allow a tourist to experience Ulysses in the Dublin landscape. How does the Faulkner project understand itself in comparison to other projects that...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...trains, any shared coach was to be "divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs," while restaurants were subject to still more stringent regulations.19The Code...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...textbooks. But nearly every major US newspaper covered the events of March 1931 in northeast Alabama. The news of successive Scottsboro trials reverberated globally, prompting demonstrations from Cape Town to...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...in a mode promoting social justice and change for all LGBTQ+ people. My wrist might not be ‘stiff’ in the way my dad intended, but I think my artistic mission...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...(Source: "Shooting the Chutes," Atlanta Constitution (April 9, 1896), pg. 10. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, privately-owned amusement parks dotted the American landscape, and by 1920, between...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...city jurisdictions may vary in the degree to which race dominates law and custom. This research guide focuses on an urban landscape in the South, where a particular set of...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...people of color, and women. The extreme inequality in these states reflects a white southern legacy of a government/elite/corporate alliance that promoted slavery and the plantation system; post-slavery agricultural peonage;...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
Introduction Mary E. Frederickson, Tending an early twentieth century Draper loom made in Massachusetts for use in mills across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama, Margilan, Uzbekistan, 2006. I heard the...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...foundations of ideologies justifying carceral control" (214). Through music from Bessie Smith, Victoria Spivey, and Herbert Halpert's 1939's Women's A Capella Songs from the Parchman Penitentary5Various artists, Mississippi Department of...