Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Flourish in the South," South Today, October 1969, 1. By the 1970s, as many public schools in the South were being desegregated for the first time, promoters of private schools...
Religion and the US South
...landscape of places where many people were passionate and open about their faith. By Faulkner's time, evangelical Protestantism had already long dominated the South as a whole, and this proselytizing...
Ashé: Cultural Arts Cornerstone in New Orleans’ Central City
...The two transformed this raw space into the Ashé Cultural Arts Center to promote, celebrate, and produce works by and about the African and African American experience. Ashé Cultural Arts...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...the Atlanta painting, and promoters moved each canvas from city to city for exhibition. At every stop, riggers installed the panorama in a massive rotunda building, a specially designed structure...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...of Spanish is altering the soundscape in parts of metro Orlando. These transformations and the accompanying Latinization made some of my non-Hispanic white interviewees increasingly aware of their own white...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...Filipino Town. The maps illustrate the stories of one immigrant community by depicting the economic injustices that accompany transitions in a landscape where entertainment complexes and highways fracture neighborhoods and...
Trouble the Land: The City Too Busy to Hate
...(1:08) Narrator: When Grady proclaimed a New South, he coined a phrase and cast an image that Atlanta would promote for decades to come. By the early 1960s, growing Black...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...measurable effect on the minds of Americans remains for debate, but it did change the landscape of segregation at the local level in many places across the South, inaugurating a...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...inside the forest, workers confronted extreme temperatures, unsanitary provisions, and brutal labor bosses. Upon realizing the terrible conditions, many men attempted to escape from the Jackson camps. Documents in the...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...by those fleeing slavery, as well as the frequent disguising of these escape routes in music and song; and family and genealogical maps maintained by those who had no legal...