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Digital Library Of Georgia News (December 2023), Mandy L. Mastrovita, Sheila Mcalister
Digital Library Of Georgia News (December 2023), Mandy L. Mastrovita, Sheila Mcalister
Georgia Library Quarterly
Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) news for the fourth quarter of 2023 includes the release of the Chase Street Elementary School PTO scrapbooks collection, which includes engaging scrapbook content created and curated by parent-teacher organizations of a Southern elementary school covering the years 1926 to 2000, which includes the Progressive Era, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, and the turn of the twentieth-century. The article also features the DLG's efforts to support community-driven archives throughout the state of Georgia, aligned with national trends and fostering cultural heritage work in Georgia.
News - Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita
News - Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita
Georgia Library Quarterly
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Book Review - Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation Of America’S Airports, Brittani Sterling
Book Review - Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation Of America’S Airports, Brittani Sterling
Georgia Library Quarterly
No abstract provided.
White Norm, Black Deviation: Class, Race, And Resistance In America’S “Postracial” Media Discourse, Farooq Kperogi, Eduard Fabregat
White Norm, Black Deviation: Class, Race, And Resistance In America’S “Postracial” Media Discourse, Farooq Kperogi, Eduard Fabregat
Faculty and Research Publications
The authors deploy Marxist theory—and Gramscian hegemonic theory in particular—to investigate the subtleties of racial “othering” in the media representations of African Americans in a putatively post-racial America. The paper’s objects of inquiry are an opinion article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the reaction it instigated in the Atlanta Black Star. We argue that the contestations of signification between the dominant narrative about African Americans in the AJC and the rhetorical pushback it actuated in the alternative Atlanta Black Star both reproduce and legitimate dominant media framing by highlighting the alterity of subordinate ethnic groups and providing a site for …
News - Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita, Angela Stanley
News - Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita, Angela Stanley
Georgia Library Quarterly
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Ecgrl Unveils Valuable Local Resource For African Americans, Dorothy Demarest
Ecgrl Unveils Valuable Local Resource For African Americans, Dorothy Demarest
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article reports on the creation of an African American Funeral Program collection of resources by Dottie Demarest, a librarian and a genealogy and local history specialist at the East Central Georgia Regional Library (ECGRL) inspired by the donation from the funeral programs of African American Eula Mae Ramsey Johnson. The collection provides information on the lives of the deceased. About 1,2000 funeral programs now consist the collection following digitization of the programs through the help of Georgia HomePlace.