Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...settled in Miami after fleeing Cuba during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift, were interviewed as part of the Queer Miami exhibition, Florida, 2019. Photograph by HistoryMiami Museum. Courtesy of HistoryMiami Museum....
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...several large southern cities, including Atlanta, New Orleans, and Houston, as well as Memphis, Miami, and Virginia Beach. The passage of "Dirty South" from the specific context in which it...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...of Miami's religious landscape that evolves at the crossroads of Catholic, Protestant, and Vodouist praxes. Crossing the Water, Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church, Little Haiti, Miami. Mural by Alex Jean...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...railroads had a single ticket booth with segregated ticket windows was less innocuous than it might seem.11A Florida statute passed in 1907 required "Separate Waiting Rooms and Ticket Windows," The...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket: Video and Essay Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket. A short video by Ben Harmon and Catalina McCormick, 2009. Individuals' experiences in the criminal...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
Introduction Location of Lockhart, Alabama, 2012. On a warm spring day in 1904, former governor of Maryland and lumberman E. E. Jackson, along with several associates, traveled to Alabama to...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...enter the US, money to purchase a plane ticket, and a desire to work in poultry processing, he would bring you to Miami, then to Mississippi, and guarantee you a...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...grounds."17Lynn Bonner, David Perlmutt and Anne Blythe, "Elections Bill Headed to McCrory," Charlotte Observer, July 26, 2013, http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/07/25/4190990/changes-to-election-laws-move.html; Jim Morrill, "Voting Bill Signed; Legal Challenges Start," Charlotte Observer, August 12,...