The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Faith and Class Distinctions: Haitian Catholics beyond Little Haiti," they explore how the religiosity of middle- and upper-class Haitian Americans reifies their class standing. The economic differences between the mural's...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...flight from residential locations or flight into private school alternatives. What factors are associated with Whites choosing to stay in a neighborhood and opt to attend private school? Under which...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...from Fauquier County, Virginia, sometime before 1800. A Baptist minister, he married a Miss Stringfellow, and they had eight children. Their son Silas was born in 1800. In 1825 Silas...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Prohibition, the Depression, wars, recessions, fires, hurricanes, floods, mobsters, raids, crackdowns, segregation, integration, white flight, hippies, rappers, evangelists, the oil bust, the dot-com bust, and relentless cycles of cultural tastes"...
Good-Bye to All That?
...all the skills of a side-walk hustler plying his shell game to clueless marks; the super-rich and those just below them see their portfolios fatten while middle class, working class,...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...his deep love for its people, its culture, and its political struggles are readily apparent in songs like "95 South: All of the Places We've Been," "Delta Man," "Angola," "Jose...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...fellow for one year in 1942. Black photographers documented aspects of Black life, particularly middle-class life, that white photographers ignored or could not access. Their photographs ultimately transcended their local...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...and a coalition of scientists and middle-class suburbanites, who pushed for the preservation of free-flowing streams. It also helps Manganiello demonstrate how recurring cycles of flooding and drought, abundance and...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...of New Orleans emerged along with the propensity toward use by youth."7Bonnie and Whitebread, 92. Moreover, younger users were "drawn from the same socioeconomic classes as the adult users."8Bonnie and...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
Review Benjamin Wise's book is a fiercely intelligent yet accessible biography of elite white Delta Mississippian William Alexander Percy (1885–1942), poet, pedagogue, patron of the arts, and author of the...