Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004). The northern belt of US coniferous pine forest stretches from New...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...but the scale and scope of contemporary industrial development around the world is unprecedented. US industrialists began looking south for cheaper labor markets in the late 1870s, and investors, northern...
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...
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...
"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
...Lomaxes were on the lookout more often than not for songs that had "been handed down for a number of generations" (AFS 35 A02). In 1934 they were particularly interested...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Screenshot of Looking at Appalachia's Tennessee page. Courtesy of Mark Nunes, 2017. http://lookingatappalachia.org/tennessee. Looking at Appalachia also challenges the power to exclude through the framing of visual design, juxtaposing photographs...
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...