Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...George King, originally broadcast on PBS in 2000. In making Goin' to Chicago, I wanted to recognize the power of expressive culture—language, food, spiritual life, and particularly music. I also...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...E. Coleman started Kindred Spirits in Houston as an answer to many lesbians' problems with the bar options then available. She also hired a security firm to guard the parking...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...at the municipal auditorium, McKinley proclaimed: "Under hostile fire on a foreign soil, fighting in a common cause, the memory of old disagreements has faded into history." In the spirit...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...was prone to "wandering" in "spirit," if not always in "geography" and "time," as she would describe it in her memoir, the automobile proved useful as a source of refuge...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...spiritual home on the Black side of a segregation boundary. The interstate and dome destroyed the old structure, and today, the site is now a nondescript concrete parking garage. The...
Encountering COVID
...I use now a lot, pluck, which is spirited and determined. In doing the interviews, I settled on asking only one question: What was your 2020 supposed to be like...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...(11). Unable to impose Jim Crow policies on Mexican Americans legally, a less formal "Juan Crow" pattern of prejudice emerged (33). In 1893 and 1905, Texas passed a series of...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...the air. See 93.3FM radio star Wild Wayne's oral history interview at http://www.nolahiphoparchive.com. Today, WWOZ's official policies regard rap and bounce as part of the New Orleans music canon, and...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...a week—eighty dollars per day if you are picking strawberries. It's so much more complex than a person trying to get ahead. It is about international trade agreements and policies...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...2003, ten students attended public schools. The new majority of southern students demands new public policies. The success or failure of low-income students has enormous repercussions for all, as well...