Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...for Cherokee County ("Where Metro Meets the Mountains") approximately forty miles north of downtown Atlanta, is not Francisco's final destination.2Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, "Discover Cherokee!" https://cherokeechamber.com. "My uncle works carpentry,...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...and Act (New York: Random House, 1964). From the outset, poet and some-time novelist Allen Tate questioned the appropriateness of the word "renaissance," concluding that this literary outpouring "was more...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...as environmentalism. Excluded groups link their appreciation of nature and desire for healthy surroundings to a broader vision of social justice inseparable from full social and political rights. Dr. Carver...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...joined Alex Taylor's (brother of James Taylor) band Friends and Neighbor for a year and a half and appears on his Capricorn album, Dinnertime. Next, Leavell spent six months on...
The Nature of Rights
...nature” is a strategy as much a movement, a strategy that can promote democracy through local involvement.[17] In this era of increasing assaults on the democratic rights of humans, expanding...
Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance
"Glistening in the newest coat of paint from the platform of the street car terminal station to the big white fence at the back of the toboggan slide; enlarged, improved...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...essays is puzzling. In making the case for the significance of his approach, Pfeifer dismisses the value of other approaches to the topic—an unfortunate, but all too common, academic habit....
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...has transformed the social, cultural, and economic landscape of the US South since the late 1980s. Mexicans make up approximately 60 percent of the Latino population in the South; Central...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Landscape," Race, Poverty & the Environment 18, no. 2 (2011): 17, http://www.southernstudies.org/2011/09/black-power-african-americans-come-back-south-shake-up-southern-politics.html. Approximately 80 percent of Georgia's African American population growth is highly concentrated in the Atlanta metro region. African...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...questions—what and where is the Great (circum)Caribbean?—and, more importantly, does it matter? "Hyphenating Waters": Calypso Magnolia and the circumCaribbean Lowe approaches these questions through a diligent analysis of books spanning...