by Arielle Rochelin, PhD Student, History
In 1999, the city of Atlanta put an end to the infamous street party known as Freaknik. Municipal authorities blamed the booty-shaking women, dope-boys, booze heads, and tricked-out Cadillacs for clogging the streets and bringing the city to a standstill. To this day, this is the memory of Freaknik that endures – one that serves as a cautionary tale for Atlanta’s officials….
By Priyanka Sen, PhD Student, History of Architecture and Urban Development
Tucked away on a deserted landscape, the former “Peg Leg” Bates Country Club in Kerhonkson, New York still stoically stands – the first black-owned resort in the Catskills’ famed summer vacation spot known as the Borscht Belt…
by Scott Abramowitz, Class of 2024, History
After scoring a record 105 points in a high school game, Cheryl Miller became the most highly recruited female athlete ever. …
by Jeremy Goodwin, PhD Student, History
In the wake of the wrenching economic dislocations of the 1970s that produced the troubling new phenomenon of “stagflation,” policymakers, economists, and political commentators began to pin their economic hopes on an unlikely new hero: the entrepreneurial small business owner.
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by Kyler Phillips, Class of 2021, History
Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes for short) were the Internet before the Internet….
by Spencer Beswick, PhD Candidate, History
Anarcha-feminists confronted anti-abortion activists in the streets as part of their broader fight against patriarchy, capitalism, and the state in the late twentieth century….
by Shawn Hikosaka, Class of 2021, History
The 1980s pitted Japan against the United States in a fierce trade war. Japanese products were flooding the U.S. market….
by Emily Prest, Class of 2022, Environmental Studies
In 1982, the North Carolina state government approved the building of the state’s first hazardous waste landfill site in the small, low income, and predominantly African American community of Warren County….
by Clara Valenzuela, PhD Student, Musicology
While DIY musical ethics have typically been credited as being pioneered by the hardcore punk scene of the early 1980s, the early hip hop scene of the late 1970s engaged in a strikingly similar ethic and aesthetic….
by Cameron Tardif, PhD Student, History
Following their release in 1985, the Air Jordan emerged as a racialized marker of social status and was often understood as being associated with urban gangs and crime….