Deep Ellum Blues
...property that was adjacent to the railway tracks. It is this kind of public improvement that promotes city growth." Growth northward. This was the era that fixed the division between...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...central theme of Behind the White Picket Fence is that middle-class whites utilize many resources to maintain power while simultaneously extolling the virtues of their multiethnic environment. Deploying what Mayorga-Gallo terms a...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Ozarks was so poor to begin with that they scarcely noticed. No, that's not right, because poverty’s so relative. A better way to put it is that folks in the...
Mardi Gras Indian, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...social, cultural, and economic changes that created the atmosphere of "beachy tropicality and Caribbean escapism" that characterize Bourbon Street's continuous parade in the twenty-first century (228). In between, he traces...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...don’t want and the ones who are griping and complaining are usually the ones that are lazy and don’t want to work. I think that that’s what a lot of...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...testified that Rolfs ordered him to say that "no peonage existed there" and that "I did so." Will Nanse reported that Harlan and Huggins removed workers who might attest to...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...another wife and so I need not trouble myself about that one; but I told him those that God had joined together let no man put asunder, and that I...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Mace generalizes, for example, that "readers in Seattle and Denver were somewhat sympathetic to the Till family, while readers in San Francisco were largely disinterested in the Till case" (124)....
Inside Poor Monkey's
...that is often referred to as a "tin." It is windowless, but has three doors. The front sports several faded, hand-painted signs. One describes the dress code by saying "not...