Deep Ellum Blues
...L. McDonald, Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion, 1870-1925 (Dallas: The Dallas Historical Society, 1978), v. Almost nothing, neither geography nor government, constrained the growth of the city, and it...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...day of Santa Eulalia.1We carried out research, location shooting, and interviewing for this project from 1999 to 2004 in northeast Georgia and in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, in the town of Santa...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...el pueblo de Santa Eulalia. La investigación incluye entrevistas, observación participativa e investigación archivística en Georgia y en Guatemala. Santa Eulalia es la Santa Patrona de un pueblo del mismo...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...[ca 1850] Rosa's Log Cabin Quilt [ ca. 1880] Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905] Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915] Narcissa Benson Narcissa Benson (1828-1881) was the...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...Administration, Richland County, South Carolina, Probate Court. Record of Admissions, Vol. 6, 114–15; Record of Deaths, 44–5, South Carolina State Mental Hospital. Certificate of Death no. 35328, Rosa Jones; South...
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...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
"The Handkerchief Quilt made by Rosa Benson Snoddy + she + Mag Drummond quilted it. For Paul to have." History: Sometime before her death in 1908, Rosa Benson Snoddy...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...see Jefferson R. Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999). Wal-Mart, the most successful corporation operating in the global economy of the twenty-first...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...into the state's Francophone musical traditions, with a portable recording device in tow, began an intermittent but deeply influential engagement with Cajun and Creole music across his long career. Indeed,...
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...