Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Freeman knows Oak Ridge from extensive ethnographic and archival research, and from personal experience. She was born there. Her grandparents lived there, and her grandfather was a soldier who trucked...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Haenhel Building and the Arnold Bakery, which were refurbished and rented to businesses. The next projects were larger live-and-work facilities featuring retail on the ground floor with living spaces above...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...expected to take over from Josephus as editor. He had pursued editorial experience since his high school days in Washington, DC, where the family lived while Josephus served as secretary...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...public health projects. Because African Americans lived in poor, rural areas which required social development and the improvement of health services, he assumed, the state must have created this “large...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...was extending an olive leaf with one hand and stoking the fire with the other. By being turned into a spectacle, and the embodiment of integration—"it's here now"—Virginia experienced the...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...to potential advertisers, WRAL billed Teenage Frolics as "a live and lively dancing party featuring colored teenagers from high schools in the Channel 5 area." The station also included a...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...RIGHT QUADRANT — Personal hazards. BOTTOM QUADRANT — Number of live and dead victims still inside the structure. ["0" = no victims] National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System,...
Deep Ellum Blues
...latter two have known recent re-development. Legal desegregation, in fact, only heightened this process since it made it appear even more necessary for white Dallasites to live further from the...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...stations on most of the barrier islands. Over the years the keepers and surfmen of the stations saved countless lives and millions of dollars in property. While the men of...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...lives by escaping slavery in the South on the underground railroad and crossing the Ohio River—are quite similar to Mexican people and others today risking their lives by crossing the...