Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Michele Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: New Press, 2012); Rhonda Y. Williams, "'We Refuse!': Privatization, Housing, and Human Rights," in Freedom...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...1996), 398. Similarly, in Atlanta, lower-income white parents protested that because they could not move away or choose private education like the "silk stocking crowd," they would be disproportionately affected...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...Monkey, began to operate the unused sharecropper house as a lounge. (Enlarged Map: Poor Monkey's and Merigold) The building is made of unpainted cypress planks, roofed with corrugated galvanized steel...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...a library and study in the upper story of his house, which was his constant resort. During the day, his brother-in-law, Mr. Archibald Davie, had been at the house and...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...haunted a whole generation of people, especially those who became activists in the Freedom Struggle. Darryl Mace's In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...black oppression. Across the US South, immigrant-advocacy groups borrow heavily, sometimes directly, from a civil rights playbook, mapping the 2003 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride onto the original Freedom Ride and...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...and brutality. This version of human bondage, nurtured in Charleston and fostered by proponents in the former Confederate states as part of the Lost Cause tradition, has had broad white...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...when referencing patrons of these bars because Weathers specified that lesbian was not used in the gay San Antonio scene when she was there. Brenda Weathers with friends (left to...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...a sixteen-room French Quarter townhouse, donning the mask of urban sophisticate. It was as if he were striving to recreate the lifestyle of planter patriarchs who used to divide their...