Ghosts of Atlanta Phoebe Wyss the book focuses especially on

the book focuses especially on the lives of everyday people over the centuries

Sergio Lemus explores the lives of these migrants and looks at the struggles they face as they work to make the city their home

in history and in the body subject to passion and to time

singing together in sanctuaries as well as in homes

Ghosts of Atlanta Phoebe Wyss the book focuses especially onOnce heralded as the "Black Mecca of the South," Atlanta's Black community is currently under threat of dislocation by cultural gentrification. Amid the city's urban renaissance, residents face rising property values, taxes, and rents, as well as the more insidious loss of a collective identity and belonging. In Ghosts of Atlanta: Cultural Gentrification of the Black Mecca, author Rhana Gittens Wheeler examines the fading echoes of African American