"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...River Parade in April of 1941. Throughout the forties and fifties, the River Walk featured a small sampling of restaurants, shops, and boating activities that drew in a fair number...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...in Anniston since the 1930s, and growing up, Mims and her family—mother, father, and twelve siblings—lived right near the plant. Her parents farmed land near a drainage ditch that carried...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...of inquiry through to the present, with business elites still the leading actors in urban planning. Top, Cover of Koch & Fowler’s “A City Plan for Austin, Texas,” 1928. Bottom, Plan showing...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...passing of textiles Canton has become a place where Latin American workers at day labor sites and the ConAgra poultry processing plant comprise a vital labor market in this Georgia...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...the development of Sea Pines Plantation as a resort community planned around its relationship to forest and sea. Betsy brought with her skills as a writer, editor, and her contacts...
Love and Death in Mississippi
Blog Post I can remember the first time I understood death. Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, early in the mornings, my mother would visit one of her home care...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
Appendix I: Background on the Family of Francis Tinney Charles Teney manumitted Francis's father William Don Otius Teney on November 15, 1827, along with William's siblings Ann and Andrew and their...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...news director not only quoted from Delaney in the coverage but also showed film footage of the event and described the group's plans to "quit doing business" with several downtown...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...line, a significant number for such a rural area. The ultra-conservative Crawfordites sought to continue most practices “as in the time of Uncle Reuben.” Since their formation in the 1870s,...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Orleanians think spatially about their city. The New Orleans Planning Districts map roughly corresponds to popular designations of city geography. The titles for these planning districts are used for the...