Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Brothers, Downtown Tampa aerial view, east from railroad sheds to Ybor, Estuary Zone, and gas storage tank Tampa, Florida, 1958. Catalog no.: PA 5858. The firm flourished during the 1920s...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...through which the state exerted itself. Agrarian studies scholar James C. Scott, in The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (2009), analyzes the political...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...as forty anti-Semitic groups operating in the South at the time of the black freedom struggle. Some of these organizations promoted their cause exclusively through propaganda. Others took more direct...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...in a mode promoting social justice and change for all LGBTQ+ people. My wrist might not be ‘stiff’ in the way my dad intended, but I think my artistic mission...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...least five guys showed up. They drove out in an old beat up car, and they were all Latino. This was in the mid-1980s, and that day I began to...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...of Delegates announced an effort to promote a "Repeal Amendment" to the US Constitution to provide states with the collective power to nullify any act of Congress with which two-thirds...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Census tracts with at least 20 percent non-Hispanic white residents and at least 20 percent non-Hispanic black residents to be "integrated." See Sheryll Cashin, The Failures Of Integration: How Race...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...grants to Anglo-American settlers, who primarily took up residence in lands northeast of San Antonio. These Anglo settlers, who identified as Texians, and Hispanic settlers, who identified as Tejanos, fought...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...of photographs we think we know. Born on a farm in south central Mississippi, O. N. Pruitt came of age while Eastman Kodak was popularizing photography. The introduction of affordable...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...kind of hip blogger criticism found on websites like Gawker, Daily Beast, Jezebel, and Uproxx when they write about a place such as Louisiana, a style that exposes problems in...