Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Orleans, Louisiana, February 2006. Photograph by Stewart Harvey. Codes are marked on the collapsed roof of this demolished house. © Stewart Harvey. How did others interpret the X-code? ". ....
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...Mexico (1965) that describes Confederate flight as "an attempt to snatch some sort of victory out of defeat"2Andrew Rolle, The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to Mexico (Norman: University of...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...about the importance of peer education, TIRN sought direct contact between workers in east Tennessee and workers in Mexico. TIRN reached out to several border groups that were working to...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...our house paint."6Barton, op. cit. Dorothy Moye, Bywater neighborhood, Tibetan prayer flags and poster with preserved code, 2009. Other New Orleanians purposefully preserve their X-codes as powerful memory markers, integral...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino children. (Applause.) These families should be free to choose the public, private, charter, magnet, religious, or...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...this phenomenon (39, 93, 114). Despite the deep interconnectedness of the United States and Mexico, as well as the major political and social questions this interdependence engenders, narratives of US-Mexico...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...versatility blurred the boundaries between formal and informal law, between legal experts and ordinary litigants, between courts, the governor's office, and hamlets tucked away in forest thickets in the interior....
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...used form of protest for women workers throughout the Global South. Turnover rates among women workers in Mexico, Central America, China, and Vietnam remain high, exceeding 50 percent per year...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...evolved to include hanky codes, gay bar and bathhouse secret codes, and other gendered and sexualized forms of inclusion or exclusion. In a letter to the editor published in NEWSWEST,...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...use of imagery has critiqued, promoted, and problematized the idea of the South and its rap music culture. Rap and Place Perhaps the most remarkable dimension of the Dirty South...