Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...too. We joined efforts. They brought design and carpentry skills, and I had an existing building that would serve as a fine henhouse. Since 2004, we have shared the costs,...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...scholarly design team for the AmericanSouth project that was led by Martin and on which I served as project manager. We were studying how to unite materials from disparate archives...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Houston, MCA installed signs prohibiting vehicles from making turns between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. in the Montrose area. These no-turn signs restricted those cruising by car from circling legally...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...which contains only one mixed-blood character, the significantly named Dilsey, avoids issues of race while promoting regeneration through capitalism. Known for its sentences of over eighty lines in search of...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...of color when they sign voucher bills, as did Georgia Governor Brian Kemp when he held his signing ceremony for the ESA law.28Ty Tagami, “Kemp signs voucher bill he championed,”...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...understated design "reflects the way the street was originally developed," incorporating local history into the corridor.18Crane Urban Design Team and Austin Revitalization Authority, "New Visions of East Austin: Central East...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...editor of the Tuscaloosa News ("An Office"; Hallman). It's significant that one of those hate-filled letters linked "multiculturalism" to "globalization"—and complained about the outsourcing of "good" US jobs overseas and the...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...government support for private schools as both the origin and primary foundation for the current movement for "school choice." Sign protesting Betsy DeVos at a rally, Bellevue, Washington, October 13,...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...to a "hemispheric south" where planters and railroad promoters envisioned business and trade networks across the Mexican borderlands and into Latin America during the last third of the nineteenth century...