Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...of Central Austin," (Preliminary Report, 1978), 25; 2007 Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco study of East Austin, "Austin, Texas: the East Austin Neighborhood," http://frbsf.org/cpreport/docs/austin_tx.pdf, accessed October 4, 2010. Changing...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...de inmigración de América Latina que ha cambiado el panorama social, cultural y económico del sur de los Estados Unidos desde finales de los años ochenta. Los mexicanos componen aproximadamente...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...a high-rise condominium behind the central core of the old City of Austin Seaholm Power Plant, Austin, Texas, April 19, 2014. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith. Courtesy of the Library...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...separations to both worker choice and southern custom. He notes that southern workers called the foreigners "dagos" and "sheenies." Men called one camp "the dago camp" for its large Italian...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...The Cambridge Modern History Atlas (Cambridge University Press, 1912). Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin. Sparked by the Battle of Gonzales on October 2,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...categories that are hierarchically ranked and constantly pitted against one another. Workers in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean have lost jobs to lower-wage workers in southern China. Chinese workers...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...with Antonio (2001, 2002) and Maria (2003). When the economy worsened in California in the 1990s and the competition for jobs increased, the couple decided to leave Los Angeles and...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...Doug Sahm) with the exception being Marcia Ball, who were already living in Texas or had gravitated to Austin's heterogeneous soundscape from New York, Los Angeles, or Nashville. Armadillo World Headquarters,...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...University of Southern California. He is the author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 (Oxford University Press, 1993), co-editor of Los Angeles and...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...importunes you to the point of rage to buy cheap candy, Coca-Cola, and worthless, if not vulgar, books." Segregated waiting room at Union Station railroad depot, Jacksonville, Florida, 1921. Photograph...