Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...these families typically live in very new homes in new developments outside the interstate perimeter highway." Fenton,Transplanting Religious Traditions, 32. At the same time, new immigrant families were moving to...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...News, July 27, 2006, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14059113/ns/politics/t/bush-signs-voting-rights-act-extension. But, during oral arguments, Justice Scalia suggested he knew the reason for this overwhelming support by the two other branches of the federal government. "Now,...
Editorial Style Guide
...Faulkner's Art (University of Georgia Press, 2013). Journals and newspapers: Follow the exact punctuation of the published journal or newspaper title. Italicize the title. U.S. News & World Report In...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...worker experiences (12–13). Hatcher, Chas. F. Slave Depot advertisement, New Orleans, ca. 1861. Advertisement originally published in Gardner's New Orleans Directory for 1861 (Gardner, 1861). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of fancy.2Edith Mayfield Wiggins, telephone conversation with author, July 10, 2014. Hers was a childhood surrounded by art publications and crafts in various media, and included museum trips to New...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, and across the Gulf of Mexico from Mississippi to New Orleans. Blacks regarded these communities as vital sites of leisure, relief from wage labor, business opportunities, and—even if too...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...New York, 2009–2018. Piano keys, plaster bust, and glitter, dimensions vary. Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Loichot's "Graves for Katrina" examines the work of mourning effected by visual...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...pivotal cases, it isn't entirely clear if the Court's new conservative majority will stay together for at least five votes, but in the voting rights case, it seems only a...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...from “Six Yellow Stanzas,” exploring legibility, estrangement, and connections to New Orleans Part 6: Alexander discusses black migration experience in her family, her use of direct address, and reads from “Georgia...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...1941. Numerous additional flood-control acts have authorized "corrective" works along the river and its tributaries, including new levees for containing flood flows and floodways for the swift passage of excess...