Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...profits for men who never saw the place, who never sensed its dull brutal life."13Massey, "A History of the Lumber Industry in Alabama and West Florida," 57–60; Mary Quakenbos affidavit,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...they cannot be seen on any maps of the world," she affirmed the power of the individual within the collective milieu of the community and workplace. These are the places,...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...the conditions in these new spaces. "The negro-waiting room is a dirty miserable place, with here or there a broken chair and [a] few miserable benches," wrote Scarborough of the...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...and Fresco, "CLUE: A Conceptual Model to Study the Conversion of Land Use and its Effects," Ecological Modelling, 85 (1996), 253-270). The "new ecology" focuses on "people in places" as...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...and place-identity of Buenaventura Lakes: I was looking at homes with the realtor and found a house at the corner of Lakeside and Anhinga that I really liked. I heard...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...(2019): 4–22. All these models of queer territory posit collective understandings of place that transcend the social boundaries of queer identity groups. All three authors also reference cruising, but offer...
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...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...particular place can only produce a limited number of marketable artists) and, to a lesser degree, speculative exploration (that going to obscure places might yield a novel interpretation of the...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...old questions about social inequality and the regional history of investments and expectations for public education and economic prosperity. Debates continue about how best to allocate and utilize place-specific local...