New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...southern studies alongside studies of immigration to the South, highlighting their disciplinary, methodological, empirical, and political differences. Although these fields have yet to speak to each other in sustained fashion,...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...rural legislators to support vouchers. It also camouflages the severe fiscal impact this scheme will have on routinely underfunded public schools after the special federal funds run out. The states...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...always falling was never snow, no kind of bird, pigeon or crow ... Which I think is also a beautiful poem because it allows his mother to be a person....
Religion and the US South
...environmental, demographic, economic, social, and cultural factors of religious development. Spatial and social places mattered. Commonalities existed across social barriers but experiences varied depending on whether you were a Mississippi...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...attended local cultural, political, and business-related events, and collected information at churches, schools, and businesses. My research combines traditional anthropological methods with textual analysis to interweave data gathered through participant...
Miner's sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia
John Vachon, Miner's sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF34-032709-D....
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...discipline them and "keep them on the straight and narrow." This isn't an idea lacking all merit, but Boyhood's refusal to give us overwrought tragedy shows that folding all non-traditional...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...workers, veterans, immigrants, undocumented workers, drug addicts, and other people on the social and cultural margins sought work as day laborers. Even though these workers were peripheral in their social...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Louis Armstrong and known as the "colored red-light district."91The adjacent South Rampart Street corridor also had many African American businesses. See "Jazz Neighborhoods—New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park (U.S. National...