University of Georgia Press, January 2023. Paper Back. Poor Atlanta looks at the poor people's campaigns in Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970s, which operated in relationship to Sunbelt city- building efforts. With these efforts, city leaders aimed to prevent urban violence, staunch disinvestment, check white flight, and amplify Atlanta's..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, August 2019. Paper Back. For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of black education dates back to Reconstruction, and..... More
Milestone Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Outdoor leader and educator Jonah McDonald shows the way to discovering hiking in Atlanta's canopy-covered green spaces in this guide that recommends 60 hikes within 30 miles of Georgia's Capitol dome. Ranging from less than a mile to more than 12 miles, routes are..... More
Hachette Books, August 2017. Paper Back. Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography. In turbulent times Americans look to the Civil Rights Movement as the apotheosis of political expression. As we confront a startling rise in racism and hate speech and remain a culture scarred by social..... More
Ecco, January 2022. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South--and thus of America--by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration." --Isabel Wilkerson..... More
Milkweed Editions, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood..... More
The History Press, February 2010. Trade Paperback. The Highs and Lows of Little Five Points documents the transformations of Atlanta's first Neighborhood Commercial District. Atlanta's Little Five Points, the city's first Neighborhood Commercial District, stands out as one of the most distinctive shopping districts in the Southeast. There have been..... More
The History Press, August 2022. Paper Back. Settle in for a juicy bushel of Peach State bafflement. More
University of California Press, December 2019. Trade Paperback. From the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars. Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender rights has revealed..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 1994. Trade Paperback. Published to wide controversy, it became the source (acknowledged or unacknowledged) of much of our thinking about race relations and was for many a catalyst for the civil rights movement. It remains the most courageous, insightful, and eloquent critique of the..... More
Princeton University Press, July 2007. Trade Paperback. The forgotten story of how southern white supremacy and resistance to desegregation helped give birth to the modern conservative movement During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where..... More
St Martins Pr, October 1995. First Thus. Trade Paperback. First paperback edition, first prinitng; Inscribed by author at title page; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy. More
University Press of Kansas, October 1989. Trade Paperback. From the end of Georgia's white primary in 1946 to the present, Atlanta has been a community of growing black electoral strength and stable white economic power. Yet the ballot box and investment money never became opposing weapons in a battle for..... More
University of California Press, October 2022. Paper Back. An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta. Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core of expansion, inequality, and political relevance. In recent decades, central Atlanta has experienced..... More
Ballantine Books, May 1997. Trade Paperback. THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF A BRUTAL ACT OF HATE "At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast--but..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, March 1974. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2021. Trade Paperback. Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca--a beacon for gays and lesbians growing up in its homophobic towns and cities. There, the Sweet Gum Head was the club for achieving drag stardom. Martin Padgett evokes the fantabulous..... More
Basic Books, May 2017. Hardcover. What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century Atlanta is on the verge of tremendous rebirth-or inexorable decline. A kind of Petri dish for cities struggling to reinvent themselves, Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the country, gridlocked..... More
Precision Press, 1967. Stapled Pamphlet. {6' x 7'} Stapled pamphlet with heavily foxing/dust stained cardstock cover. Two staples. Foxing/darkening/tanning heaviest at margins. Horribly unfunny. [Unpaginated.]. More
Scribner, May 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing w/ full number line; Solid binding, gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy boards, mildly edge-worn; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket VG w/ no significant flaws to disclose; Jacket now housed in protective mylar for further preservation; An excellent copy. More
Wildsam Field Guides, June 2020. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Atlanta reveals theSouth's largest city through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and rooted things, what's truly authentic and sharing the soul of a place, for travelers and locals alike. Explore this progressive Southern hub..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 2022. Hardcover. A modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap--a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli. From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to strip clubs, Atlanta is defined by..... More
Devon Publishing Co., 1981. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in DJ with sunned spine and heavily foxed/dust stained edges. Likewise foxing/dust stains to jacket verso. Flap is not clipped. Navy blue cloth covered spine. Foxing/dust stains to textblock edges especially top edge. Tanned end papers. End page design: illustrated maps. [249 pages]..... More
Anchor Books, March 1972. Trade Paperback. In the late 1960's, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine "Foxfire" in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries..... More
Sandlapper Publishing, Inc., 1991. Hardcover. Seventh printing, 1991; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy cloth boards; Text free of markings; Dust jacket Very Good w/ no significant flaws to disclose; An excellent copy. More
