Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...a time of hope for an end to segregation and discrimination. It also coincided with rising national popularity of blues and country music, much of which originated in the rural...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...twentieth- and early twenty-first-century version of "Negro removal."3"Negro removal" was a phrase used to describe the disproportionate displacement of black people from neighborhoods targeted for urban renewal. "Urban renewal," writes...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a southern office for the Racial and Cultural Relations Department of the New York-based National Council of Churches. For the next seven years, he was closely allied with most of...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
Essay Map of global ecoregions. Courtesy of World Wildlife Fund. Environmental history emphasizes the role of humans as an integral part of their natural surroundings. Ecological systems and biological diversity,...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...suburban subdivisions, but their spatial organization "typif[ies] the features of all suburban commercial development." Indeed, many drive-in theaters were ultimately leveled to make way for shopping malls or residential developments.2Lonnee,...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
..."listener" of complex national, regional, and local identifications has been a central, contested issue in radio scholarship. Susan Douglas describes the condition: [Radio's] technologically produced aurality allowed listeners to reformulate...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and space, he argues, though consumption creates a portal through which a listener can inhabit this audiotopia.2Audiotopia is Josh Kun's term. Audiotopia represents the visceral, emotional, and intellectual experiences of...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...to the late nineteenth century. The market for physical labor in New Orleans had always been biracial, and it was no different along the waterfront, where black and white cargo...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...heavily scripted pieces, this video also provides the most autobiographical representation of what Louisiana "means" to its videographers. It also makes use of interviews and common cultural objects or motifs...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...environmental causes have often participated in actions to oppose racial injustice, eliminate poverty, and achieve gender equality. Such alliances have been essential to the success of the environmental movement. "Negroes'...