"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
..."the cultural system of ideas about social and linguistic relationships, together with their loading of moral and political interests."5Judith T. Irvine, "When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy," American...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...distribution and have generated wealth. But the consequences of those decisions, and others, especially those connected with "selling" Memphis by offering typically southern industrial recruitment incentives, marketing cheap land and...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...justice.3Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012), 320; Robert S. Emmett, Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...about the level of self-esteem of any of the figures Schmitzer discusses. Stephen Bishop, Map of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 1845. From Alexander Clark Bullitt's Rambles in Mammoth Cave. Courtesy of American Antiquarian...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Department of Archives and History. Poultry farm scene with unidentified man, Clarke County, Mississippi, 1956. Photograph from Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Collection PI/2010.0002. Series 2, Image 276. Courtesy of Mississippi...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...numbers, vetting projects, and trading horses in an effort that to longtime observers must have seemed a fool's errand. Competition, not collaboration, had long characterized metropolitan relationships and it wasn't...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...replaced with "by", followed by "Jno. Clark, $36.50," evidently indicating that a Jonathan Clark was compensated for the above-mentioned labor by the "colored men." The gardener John Howlett is not...