Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...in Atlanta" (master's thesis, Emory University, 1993), 17. Laboring for Justice in Atlanta's Landscapes of Power Boosters promoted Atlanta as the "Jewel of the South," "City of the Twenty-First Century,"...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...get to use in today's world. But the word that comes to this driver's mind is slow. I feel it immediately as I enter the roadway—not only my car decelerating...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
.... . I cannot help but think that an organization which ignores half of its . . . potential membership or half of the population today in its particular struggle...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...promoted as a safe alternative to the existing road and as an economic boon to the area. Old US Route 19-23 was a steep, winding, unimproved two-lane shared by school...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Unicorn Stencil Documentary Films, 2011). Today, public housing has become a trenchant symbol of failure. By the late 1970s, low-income black people who resided disproportionately in public housing were often...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
Review As I write this review of Robert Wuthnow's compelling account of Texas religious and cultural history, I am struck by two seemingly unrelated yet telling events that resonate...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...into a more appropriate and useful channel."2Simpson, "Note to the Public," v–vi. Despite his groundbreaking creativity, Simpson is little known today. Few scholars have written about his work, and he...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...and mentally ill in the same way we do today. Therefore, words like "Lunatic" and "Idiot" appear in both the names of asylums and in medical literature. They used here...
Trouble the Land: Crow and Molasses
...what it represented for them was the beginning of the end. (0:28) Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (Narrator): Amid the racial tensions of the post-war South, Atlanta's white leaders promoted their hometown as,...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003). Today, Richmond appears to be revising these views and heading toward a more realistic, and complete, history of...