Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...from a mechanical recording; it becomes a collaborative, multivocal interrogation of both external and internal realities in which the initial exposure is only a minimalist starting point."12Ibid., 75. In Looking...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...of violence. In 1906, Alexander Irvine, a writer for Appleton's Magazine, went undercover in the Jackson lumber camps. In My Life in Peonage, Irvine wrote that Lockhart was "a town...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...in 1900; the Erwin Cotton Mill in Durham in 1919; or the Baldwin Mill in Marion in 1929. The looms in the Margilan weave room had been manufactured in the...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
..."It is best not to ask him for information even in the gentlest tones. His information is for white persons chiefly." The other whites who made themselves at home in...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...BVL's residents: Buena Ventura Lakes is a lower income neighborhood in general. I would not recommend the area, but I know it is not the worst area to move to...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...into the state's Francophone musical traditions, with a portable recording device in tow, began an intermittent but deeply influential engagement with Cajun and Creole music across his long career. Indeed,...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...and in some cases to Canada. In 12 hours the fresh and tempting fruits and vegetables are delivered in New York, in 20 hours in Boston, and in 30 hours...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Association Inc. is a Texas Corporation filed on September 2, 1975. The company's filing status is listed as Franchise Tax Involuntarily Ended and its File Number is 0036646201. The Registered...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Companies, the Fortune 500, and the Fortune Global 500. The company has won awards for innovation in information technology, including induction into the US Small Business Administration's Golden Anniversary Hall...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...They’re here and I don’t blame them. I’d come across the border every chance I got whether I was legal. If I was illegal that’s just fine too, I’d still...