Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Books, 2009), 219–248. as "the capital city of black America" thanks to its substantial black middle class and its role as a key hub for black commercial activity, political leadership,...
Editors
...Butters, Duke University Keith Byerman, Indiana State University Richard Campanella, Tulane University Robert Cantwell, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Mike Carnathan, Atlanta Regional Commission Jim Carnes, Filmmaker Dan T. Carter,...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...enslaved labor contributed substantially to the city's economy and the Confederate war effort. Slaves in Atlanta carried out non-agricultural tasks, including iron forging, cabinet making, carpentry, brick masonry, blacksmithing, and—most...
Religion and the US South
...Pioneers in the great religious reformation of the nineteenth century, ca. 1885. Engraving by John Chester Buttre featuring portraits of Thomas Campbell, B.W. Stone, Walter Scott, and A. Campbell. Library...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Nancy Casey, mother-in-law to the founder of the Wiregrass Singers, Dewey Williams. Casey mentioned a white man from Georgia who once came to teach singing schools.32Doris Dyen, electronic mail correspondence...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...the opening titles came together, what they mean,'" Take Two, Southern California Public Radio (March 9, 2014), http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2014/03/09/36373/hollywood-jobs-crafting-the-opening-titles-for-tru/. True Detective inscribes into the critical geography of Petrochemical America what Gwen...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...from the mid-nineteenth century by artists from America, Africa, and the Caribbean,"5"About Us," Hammonds House Museum. http://www.hammondshouse.org/about-us.html. Sipp draws inspiration from Gallery 72’s design and history. Though the gallery's glass walls...
Topeka newspapers
Topeka State Journal, December 5, 1906, "Texans had 'Fun.'" TEXANS HAD 'FUN' Tried to Lynch Negro on Santa Fe Train No. 17 Cowboys Put Rope Around His Neck Three...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...Spaces. Screenshot of Santa Catalina de Guale, a Spanish Franciscan mission once located on St. Catherines. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. During a week-long visit to St. Catherines in March 2015,...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...in 1978 was labor intensive rather than capital intensive. It operated outside traditional capitalist models. Sam Hamill referred to nonprofit Copper Canyon as "life outside the mainstream capitalist economy, living...