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Through the case of Jackson Hill, LeAnn Lands describes the turn toward residential segregation in early twentieth-century Atlanta.
LeeAnn Lands
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African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
The emergence of the African American community in Atlanta during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries reveals the constraints and opportunities that characterized the development of the leading city of the New South.
Carole Merritt
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African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, Adrienne Herndon achieved acclaim in education, drama, and architecture in turn-of-the-century Atlanta.
Carole Merritt
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History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
Lynnell L. Thomas reviews Richard Campanella's Bourbon Street: A History (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2014).
Lynnell L. Thomas
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Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
Rhonda Y. Williams reviews Edward G. Goetz's New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013).
Rhonda Y. Williams
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A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
Using murder mysteries to address what she saw as destructive, rather than progressive, forces coming from the city into the countryside of north Fulton County, Georgia, journalist and fiction writer Celestine Sibley (1914–1999) attempted to present the ...
Margaret T. McGehee
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Few metropolitan areas better represent recent national demographic trends and the challenges of neighborhood- and school-based segregation than the Atlanta metro region.
Karen Pooley
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New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
Beth Tarasawa writes about the changing patterns of school segregation for Latino and African American students in Atlanta.
Beth Tarasawa
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Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality
Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship, describes how inequality unfolds differently in suburban communities ...
R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy +3 more
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Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
In this essay, Andrew M. Busch discusses the histories of segregation and gentrification in Austin, Texas's Eastside and examines the rise of New Urbanism in the development of the Eastside's Eleventh Street corridor.
Andrew M. Busch
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