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...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...trees," those that followed soon after discovered "new settlements appearing, and buildings going up wherever a station has been built." From the new depots (eventually numbering twenty-eight) rail cars carried...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...and Social Change (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 35. In 1937, for instance, President Franklin Roosevelt wrote: It is an indispensable part of American policy that the coming generation...
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,...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Somebody's Children, 59–93; Laura Briggs, "Why Feminists Should Care about the Baby Veronica Case," Indian Country Today Media Network, August 16, 2013, http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/16/why-feminists-should-care-about-baby-veronica-case-150894; Laura Sullivan and Amy Walters, "Native Foster...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...capital to enhance economic opportunities and improved life chances for all Memphians. North America's Distribution Center Today, the city's most recognizable symbol of the global economy is Federal Express, headquartered...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation is an ethnohistory of the eighteenth-century Pawnees, Otoes, and Kansas, focusing particularly on their strategies to protect...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...Water Graves recognizes the album's imbrication with capitalist profit—casting Beyoncé as an embodiment of the capitalistic deity Mami Wata—it doesn't investigate how the economic "interests" underwriting her album inflect and/or...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...term of derision, a specific identity, a verb. The word can summon all these thoughts and more, regardless of authorial intention; indeed, it can carry whatever freight we readers bring...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...