Love and Death in Mississippi
...the attorneys write: Across America, LGBT people are subjected to pervasive discrimination. This discrimination often blindsides its targets, hitting without warning during the myriad transactions that make up daily life....
When the Border Crossed Me
...travelogue, an ethnography, history, and, as one reviewer put it, a jeremiad about the border. I chronicled every mile of it from the mouth of the Rio Grande in Texas...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...drink and drinking vexed Floridians. Framers of the state constitutions and city statutes grappled with myriad questions concerning liquor. Was the consumption of moonshine whiskey and store-bought bourbon a democratic...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...of the Great Society," Osburn concludes, Choctaws "finally resolved the myriad dilemmas created by BIA paternalism" (150). That is, they were able to leverage one federal agency against another and...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...and subordination of some groups, such as African Americans and women, were as integral to Bourbon Street's success as entrepreneurial experimentation and innovation. Further, Bourbon Street: A History presents myriad...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...Tretter’s engagement with David Harvey and the tradition of materialist geography demonstrates a commitment to principles of justice, as does his concern with uneven power relations and the myriad ways...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the United States, due process and equal protection of the laws, House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons," and citizens' right to vote without regard to "race, color,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007