Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Policy Institute, Migration Information Source (April 2006) http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?id=392. Esta primera ola de emigrantes de Guatemala inicialmente se instaló en Los Ángeles, Houston y la parte sur de la Florida, áreas...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...the Hutchinson Semi-Weekly Gazette concluded that the murderer "was almost a stranger in town, and probably a southerner."27Hutchinson Semi-Weekly Gazette, January 21, 1905. Sometimes Kansans gauged the superiority of the...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...older conception of place than the "anti-essentialist construction" of place defined and claimed by cultural geographers.6Doreen Massey, Space, Place and Gender (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994), 121. But Massey's take on...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
Genres of Southern Literature
...to the understanding of common imagery and intention. Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston, April 3, 1938. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...more diverse audiences."4Shady, phone interview with author, November 12, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. LiFT attendee Mikey P interacts with a series of beat machines from different eras of hip...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...