Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...a Librarian" feature, the Florida Electronic Library contains two principal divsions: Florida Memory and Florida on Florida. Florida on Florida Florida on Florida is "a comprehensive digital collection of Florida's...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...in 1845 Florida became the twenty-seventh US state. Thus, there has been a Spanish presence since the "discovery" of Florida by Europeans. In these discourses, however, Florida is constructed as...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...to sleep," so he slept on the ground. Men reported being served cold, stale biscuits, twenty or so for roughly thirty men, "not enough to go around." A mile from...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
Introduction Recording of "Coronation" #63 sung by Hoboken Sacred Harp Singers, led by Silas Lee, Florida Folk Festival. Courtesy of Florida Folklife Collection, State Library of Florida, May 4, 1958. Music...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...New History of Florida (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996). Fortified on Matanzas Bay by the stalwart Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine withstood centuries of conflict between Spanish, British,...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...of Florida Memory: State Library and Archives of Florida. I first stumbled upon my problem quite by accident, as an extension of my job as an English professor at the...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...importunes you to the point of rage to buy cheap candy, Coca-Cola, and worthless, if not vulgar, books." Segregated waiting room at Union Station railroad depot, Jacksonville, Florida, 1921. Photograph...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...inhabitants." Bordelon, "Zora Neale Hurston," 26. See also Christopher D. Felker, "'Adaptation of Source': Ethnocentricity and 'The Florida Negro,'" in Zora in Florida, ed. Steve Glassman and Kathryn Lee Seidel...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” —Toni Morrison Introduction At ten years old, visual artist Forrest Lawson remembers being bullied on the playground of his Fort Myers, Florida,...