Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...About the Author Emma Lirette, originally from Chauvin, Louisiana, lives outside Atlanta with her wife and two daughters. She works as a User Experience Researcher in social media and holds...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...In accord with state authorization Derrick raised the company on Jan. 7, 1836: Georgia Military Affairs, Mrs. J. E. Hays, copier and indexer, vol. 8, 1836–1837 (Atlanta: WPA Project 5993,...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...convention in Atlanta, but I thought that I had better find and talk to Victor Montejo before I went to his country. At the Atlanta meetings, I didn't find him...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...back from who be in Houston, and Arkansas, and Atlanta comin’ back down just to parade, ’cause they love it so much. The only problem, the only thing I worry...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...such an example make Mississippi the most backward, the absolute worst? Stop the Hate. Bedsheet Angels march in the 2013 Atlanta Gay Pride Parade. Photograph by Nick Mickolas. Courtesy of...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...singers. Today the singing also attracts members of singing communities in northeast Alabama, metro Atlanta, and further afield: singers in 2019 had traveled from New York City and Dublin, Ireland,...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...1961. Courtesy of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying seven Freedom Riders, organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), traveled south from Atlanta...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...South; and Irene Browne and Mary Odem, "Understanding the Diversity of Atlanta's Latino Population: Intersections of Race, Ethnicity and Class" (paper presented at Immigration to the US Southeast: Defining Problems,...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...the rustbelt cities of the Midwest and Northeast, the metropolitan centers of Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, and Charlotte seemed much more appealing than their northern and midwestern counterparts.8Carol B. Stack, Call...