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...
A City Divided
...Irwin street, east of the Boulevard, and up both sides of Howell street to Houston, down both sides of Houston to the Boulevard, down both sides of Houston street from...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...has transformed the social, cultural, and economic landscape of the US South since the late 1980s. Mexicans make up approximately 60 percent of the Latino population in the South; Central...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...benefits; a smaller number preferred the flexible employment arrangements associated with day labor. It was common for Latino day laborers to characterize their employment goals as such: "It's better to...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...of the Columbia River (New York: Hill and Wang, 1995); and Donald J. Pisani, Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850–1920 (Lawrence: University Press...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...the music's note heads have four distinct shapes corresponding to their position in the scale, associated with the names "fa," "sol," "la," and "mi," which singers recite before singing a...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Delaware River from Philadelphia, subsequent drive-ins were constructed on large tracts of land on the outskirts of residential and commercial development. As Bruce Lonnee, a senior development planner for Athens/Clarke...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...law, and most segregation laws were in southern states. There was widespread de facto school segregation outside the South but only in a relatively few places did the law erect...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...He estimated those along the Oostanaula River on Joseph Watters's property and at George Lavender's. The landowners, "who are acquainted with them," assisted Means in his enumeration of the frightened...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...had shifted job types, indicated by the decrease of day laborers (29%) and the increase of black sharecroppers (58%) and landholders (13%). “All of these black landowners and sharecroppers are...