Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...This allows coal companies quicker and cheaper access to millions of tons of coal while effectively eliminating the most expensive cost of doing business—labor. The average MTR mine employs eighty-nine...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the secession crisis. An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, Great Britain, August 28, 1833. Courtesy of the Freedom City virtual archive, Toronto Public Library. For...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
The Liminal Site
...Soja happily calls "the Edge City maxim, that every American city is growing in the fashion of Los Angeles," would have simply ignored the site, and potentially all Birmingham's parks...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...the El Paso Negro Ministerial Alliance, Nixon unsuccessfully petitioned the city in 1924 to honor its commitment to build a swimming pool for blacks in the city's principal park. He...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...ways. Moreover, according to Goetz, race unquestionably played a significant role in determining which complexes met their demise and which were left standing. "In city after city," the complexes torn...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...to frame the city of Atlanta as a locus of memory by constructing a series of images and performances that correspond to specific queer histories. We intend these public interventions...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...years, Holiday herself is on record as having occasionally claimed Baltimore as the city of her birth.) Meanwhile, other major figures, like Mamie Smith, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (just across...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...San Marcos, to Austin, to Big Bend National Park near the West Texas-Mexico border, the film has a vast canvas that contrasts with the seeming smallness of the story to...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...would advantage the entire city by creating the foundations for further economic growth and development. Mayor William B. Hartsfield boasted proudly that Atlanta was "a city too busy to hate."24For...