Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...of Central Austin," (Preliminary Report, 1978), 25; 2007 Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco study of East Austin, "Austin, Texas: the East Austin Neighborhood," http://frbsf.org/cpreport/docs/austin_tx.pdf, accessed October 4, 2010. Changing...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...the room at a Nashville School Board hearing on desegregation, Nashville, TN, March 1956. © Nashville Public Library. The local lines of division in this intensifying national debate were sharply drawn...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...a high-rise condominium behind the central core of the old City of Austin Seaholm Power Plant, Austin, Texas, April 19, 2014. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith. Courtesy of the Library...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...railroads had a single ticket booth with segregated ticket windows was less innocuous than it might seem.11A Florida statute passed in 1907 required "Separate Waiting Rooms and Ticket Windows," The...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...image of Nashville’s ‘new sonido.’12For research on immigration to Nashville, see Jamie Winders, “Placing Latinos in the Music City: Latino Migration and Urban Politics in Nashville, Tennessee,” in Latinos in...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...party took a private train car owned by the president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Milton H. Smith, from Montgomery eighty miles south to Opp, the end of the...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket: Video and Essay Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket. A short video by Ben Harmon and Catalina McCormick, 2009. Individuals' experiences in the criminal...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...local up-and-coming country music stars, many of whom, including Roy Acuff, Chet Atkins, Archie Campbell, and others, went on to greater success in Nashville and beyond. Unable to match Nashville's...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...Press, 1974). Reid has revised this earlier book. See The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock: New Edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004). Austin clubs, notably Armadillo World Headquarters (1970)...
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...