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
...like Houston or Atlanta and second- or third-tier cities like New Orleans, Memphis, and Miami. Dirtiness Defined For music critics and journalists, the "Dirty South" became shorthand for the growing...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...airplane and boat suggest parallel devotional differences between Miami's mostly lower-class "Little Haiti" and various middle- and upper-class suburban enclaves. Haitians in middle- and upper-class neighborhoods outside of Miami (such...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...in southern rural industries. She first attended to complaints from workers in railroad and turpentine camps at Buffalo Bluff and Maytown in northeast Florida. Quackenbos targeted Sigmund Schwartz and foreman...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of progress and profit, has both a history and a future: from England to New England, from New England to the US South, from the US South to Mexico, and...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...in Seaboard Air Line and Southern Railway Depot in Raleigh, North Carolina, provides one example of the kind of facility he had in mind.3Founded in 1900 and headquartered in Norfolk,...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Rivera Torres, Mexico's largest land developer; Bernardo Eckstein and Manolo Stern, partners in the second largest land development firm in that country, and Juan Aja Gomez."45"Mexican Millionaires Build City: Mickey...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...the island with the boatlift, and the drama picks up with his return to Cuba after Mariel, to find that family trauma is deep and unforgiving. How do you understand...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...black, brown, and occasionally white; men and women; campesinos and former blue- and even white-collar workers; speakers of English, Spanish, and a handful of indigenous languages. Vastly different histories, cultures,...
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...