DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
Introduction DDT is good for me advertisement, Time, June 30, 1947. Scan by Flickr user Crossett Library. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Early in 1949, Dottie Colson wrote to...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...metropolitan area identifies as Asian (approximately 24,000 people). https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/nashvilledavidsonmetropolitangovernmentbalancetennessee/PST045223 Many Asian groceries in Nashville were owned by Lao refugees and immigrants, none that regularly carried the items desired by the...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...a Region in My Mind," New Yorker, November 17, 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind. "[The people back home] didn't care about us no way," Scott said, speaking of whites' reception of black veterans....
Trouble the Land: Prelude to the Atlanta Movement
...can see a great hand reaching down and lifting Atlanta up, because of these colleges. https://vimeo.com/1112666224/aa6b758b8e Archival silent footage of Black professionals in Atlanta, Georgia, 1949. Edited by Steve Bransford....
Imprinting This Place: Rob Amberg's Documentary Journey
...races.” https://data.census.gov/profile/Madison_County,_North_Carolina?g=050XX00US37115#race-and-ethnicity Politically, this county votes predominantly, but not entirely, Republican, thus supporting the fear-based ideology of Trump that feeds on division, champions a narrative of white superiority, and enacts...
Trouble the Land: Crow and Molasses
...lot of attractiveness to it, but in hindsight it was an awful mistake. https://vimeo.com/1166502642?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci Civil rights attorney Howard Moore, Jr. gives his perspective on using busing to achieve integration, July...
Quilting Conversation
Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
Introduction At present, the people of Appalachia continue to endure the contraction and retreat of extractive industry with little more than big-box retail for employment. They work for local hospitals...
Deep Ellum Blues
...only chronological history of the revival of Deep Ellum that I know of is provided by The Dallas Observer: https://web.archive.org/web/20030718034108/http://thedoordallas.com/rdh/observer_july_1999.htm. ;I mention this because the club now seems to me to have...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
Review In 1931, an all-white jury in Birmingham, Alabama, sentenced Willie Peterson to death for a mysterious attack that left two white women dead and a third critically injured. The...