St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...later called Jack Smith, an African who died free in St. Augustine.27Griffin, Patricia, ed., The Odyssey of an African Slave (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009). While Sitiki was not...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...exclude non-Spanish speaking customers and/or staff no exception to this policy. Thanks.75Victor Manuel Ramos, "Workforce Central Florida had an English-only policy," Orlando Sentinel Hispanosphere, October 5, 2011. Workforce Central Florida...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...such as Chicago and Philadelphia to join the Atlanta ummah, known for its African American Muslim professionals, its progressive African American mosque communities, and its Muslim private schools. The educated...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...honor to be called 'Negroes'." From the use of "colored" and "Negro" to "African American," "Black," and "Bi-racial," the problem of naming and being named has reflected the struggles of...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...came to have the support of the Gay Political Caucus and the Metropolitan Community Church, both organizations invested in promoting the respectability of gay people. Time would prove the MCA's...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...1970s and, writes Parcel and Taylor, "are central to the story of Wake County's dramatic fracturing in 2009" (18). A Republican majority elected to the school board immediately "set to...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...with some party members talking about the need for Republicans to pursue a fifty-state strategy. 2008 Presidential Election Results by State (Democratic states in blue, Republican states in red) Other...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...thousand African American, Latino, and white day laborers have been searching for work or working in Atlanta's manual trades and industries on a daily basis since the early 1980s. African...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...African character everywhere: African-born merchants dominated the city’s street economy by selling food and African-made textiles, while African languages were as commonly spoken as Portuguese. Bahia’s African populace also shaped...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...ferries, etc. delineated correctly and faithfully." The maps were atlases of opportunity for speculators and entrepreneurs. Enterprising Georgians promoted themselves as land appraisers, guides, innkeepers, attorneys, and merchandizers in the...