"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...whites." Why do Hispanics claim a white racial identity? Rubén Rumbaut highlights the significance of place in the formation of a white racial identity, pointing out that Hispanics were far...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...license plate on my car (I sport a Trout Unlimited tag). And I have sought ways to draw my rural roots closer to my city self. Part of staying connected...
Editorial Style Guide
...appears in running text as a noun. Reserve the abbreviation US when it is used adjectivally. US Supreme Court He is a resident of the United States. States: In running...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...version of "Louis Collins." Likewise, the image of a "rubber-tired buggy, decorated horse" appears frequently in similar songs, such as "Frankie and Albert" and Blind Willie McTell's "Delia": Rubber-tired buggy,...
The Liminal Site
...to consumption, any more than the pleasure of running is reducible to the pleasure (or hassle) of buying running shoes. And though I have consulted gardening books from the 1940s,...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...rural legislators to support vouchers. It also camouflages the severe fiscal impact this scheme will have on routinely underfunded public schools after the special federal funds run out. The states...
Religion and the US South
...liturgy, theology, and other forms of religious life. Calvinist pessimism about human nature was a crucial progenitor of evangelicalism, giving it a characteristic concern for the inevitability of sinfulness and...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...that "[t]he natural environment figured so importantly in earlier historians' understanding of causation in human affairs" that it was taken for granted. Fields was concurring with environmental historian Jack Temple...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...or self-styled bohemians not only signaled a historical break in New Orleans, it mirrored transformations in modern port cities all over the globe. Ever since humankind began sending bulk goods...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...people in rural, working-class areas showed little interest.58Tengoku, 126-8; Kōgakukyū, 148-150. For Koya, these rural Japanese with high fertility rates corresponded to African Americans in the South. Koya’s brief conversation...