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In this paper, we apply Omi and Winant's theory of racial formation to understand how a new racial category of “Latino” is being created within Atlanta, a city firmly entrenched in a Black/White binary of race. Comparing Dominicans and Guatemalans in the Atlanta metro area, we show how two processes are “racializing” Latinos: 1) the homogenization of Latinos into a single “race” through state laws and policies and 2) the diversified understandings of and responses to race and racial categorization among Latinos based on their national origin and ethnicity and the specific Atlanta context. We argue that in moving beyond the Black/White binary, state laws that racialize Latinos create a two-dimensional category, with a homogenized “Latino” category as one axis and an illegal/legal distinction as the second axis. The meanings attached to “race” and the consequences that Latinos experience from racialization depend upon their perceived or actual legal status. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Asserts that the Sunbury petition of 1791 provides a fascinating statement of the racial attitudes, political consciousness and modus operandi of elite white women in early national Georgia. Simon Munro Esq.; Billy, the slave; Thomas Stone, Billy's owner; Governor Edward Telfair; Details of the petition; The two justices, John Lawson and David Rees; Patriarchal values of Georgia's white society; More.

Presents of the proceedings of the conference 'The Public's Health and the Law in the 21st Century' in Atlanta, Georgia. Participants; Features of the event; Emphasis on the goals of the conference.

Information about the costs and labor requirements of experimental organic farming systems designed to restore highly degraded soils in the southeastern US are needed. Enterprise budgets were prepared for the production of okra, hot pepper and a corn/winter squash intercrop under 10 different production systems, nine of which were based on organic conservation tillage. A stochastic dominance analysis was conducted to determine the relative risk efficiency of the 10 systems over the course of the experiment in terms of productivity, profitability and carbon sequestration potential. Organic conservation tillage treatments had lower tractor labor and fuel costs than conventional treatments, due to the extensive tillage required in conventional vegetable farming. The subset of organic treatments receiving compost addition without additional mulches also demonstrated increases in soil carbon, an important driver of system productivity. Organic treatments had little pest and pathogen pressure, with the exception of Fusarium wilt in some treatments receiving straw mulch. Weed suppression by straw mulches reduced labor requirements by an average of 23%. Yields in all treatments were lower than conventional yields from other studies in the region, due to the degraded nature of the soil on the study site. However, net returns on high-labor, organic crops were over US$30,000 ha−1 in some treatments. The results of this work indicate that organic, conservation tillage systems can restore soil productivity and command high returns per hectare if labor requirements can be met. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Attempts to explain why the adoption of potentially productive institutions is delayed and why inefficient ones persist by exploring the dynamics of institutional change in a particular historical case--the closing of the Georgia open range in the late nineteenth century. The process of institutional change; The profitability of reform; The dynamics of fence reform; An empirical look.

Presents an analysis of the land market in western Georgia in the 1820s demonstrates the regional patterning of the new territory at the very onset of settlement. The state's land policy; The market in public lands; The spatial anatomy of the land market; Explanation of the regional division.

Examines the formative period of urbanization in Atlanta, Georgia during the antebellum period. Impact of the railroad construction on the state's locational advantage; Distinguishing characteristics of the state's cotton ports; Relevance of the state's growth during the antebellum period.

Explores the transformation of the cotton industry in Georgia after the Civil War. Regional developments in the industry; Patterns of specialization in the industry; Integration of Upcountry farmers into the cotton economy.

Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) was approved as an investigational new drug for contraceptive use in the United States between 1967 and 1978. Patterns of contraceptive choice and changing methods were determined among 36,298 women attending a family planning clinic between 1967 and 1976. This population was the largest concentration of US women who had DMPA available as a contraceptive option. By 1974, women in the age group 35–49 were as likely to choose DMPA as either oral contraception or an intrauterine device. Coincidentally, use of the most popular choice, oral contraception, declined in older women and IUD use dropped sharply in all age groups. On average, users of DMPA were more likely to continue their method than were users of IUDs or barrier methods. Among women in the 35–49 age group, DMPA users were the group least likely to change methods. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on the decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia that Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority's denial of the request of law firm Schulten, Ward and Turner LLP to divulge its medical records is not a violation of the Open Records Act. Details of the case; Impact of the decision on the health insurance industry.