Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002). His mediation rested on the primacy of French as a marker of cultural authenticity. "[T]he preservation of the language,"...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Illinois, go as far back as the World War I era. See, for example, "Jim Crow in Illinois," Chicago Defender, July 18, 1914, 8; "Ill. Central Mistreats Colored Passengers," Chicago...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...a large portion of the city's African American population is living in poverty, the city has a disturbingly high crime rate. The city also has an inferior public-school system, which...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...to Chicago provides a last look at several black Chicago institutions. "Economic Downturn," Video excerpt from Goin' to Chicago, a documentary film by George King, originally broadcast on PBS in...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...of the Ohio, together numbered approximately one hundred thousand troops as they approached the city, but only about twenty-seven thousand of them fought in the Battle of Atlanta.11Woodworth, Nothing But...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
Interview Southern Spaces: How did you begin the project that became this remarkable documentary The Joneses? https://vimeo.com/390791326 The Joneses Trailer. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. John Howard: Jheri (at the...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...authenticity, a retreat from the commercialism of contemporary mass culture. And yet, while folk song collectors like Cohen longed to leave the city for the mountains, many in the mountains...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Justin Driver, "Supremacies and the Southern Manifesto," Texas Law Review 92 (2014): 1082, https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/journal_articles/4043/. These white men included die-hards, such as those found in the middle-class Citizens' Councils who usually...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...underinvest in others, such as commitments to public education, has affected the city's approach to economic development in the postindustrial era and its prospects for success as a "comeback city."1Paul...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...promotional photographs. Their images depict the Ybor City Museum, a converted Cuban bakery on the grounds of Ybor City State Park. They speak to Ybor City's later role as a...