Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
..."almost half had been in America five years or less at the time of the Census." See John Y. Fenton, Transplanting Religious Traditions: Asian Indians in America (New York: Praeger,...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
The Dispossession What happened in rural America during the quarter century after 1950 has been eclipsed by the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and growing...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...in America 1967–1975 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989); Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991); and Becki Ross, The House That Jill...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...popularity came and went with an alarming ease following the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth President of the United States of America. In the heady days following Henry...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...The Mississippi River flows throughout The Accidental City. The river appealed to empire builders as an artery that could connect North America from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. New...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...violence in America. Map showing Salisbury, North Carolina, 2012. So many local or case studies of Jim Crow-era lynchings have been published during the past twenty years, that they now...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...1906), 391, 393. On the rise of corporations nationally, see Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007); Robert...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...most recent book, Everything But the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), examines the making of coffee house and public culture in contemporary America....
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...black experience. For much of black America—then and now—it has been a place where one goes in search of the truth about the black experience, historically and contemporarily. As such...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...But, no educational policy at any level today acknowledges America's large population of children in extreme poverty and the extraordinary challenges they face in education. It is time for a...