The Liminal Site
...to sit, the most liminal place in the whole liminal site. My physical pleasure—visual, auditory, and tactile—in the urban space is inseparable from my pleasure in the place from which...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...had financial ties to the merchant capital, etc., in the North) was also to question the legality of all huge land ownership. And at this very moment the big capitalists,...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...and protection as well as moral and spiritual uplift and social reform. A distinctive corps of institutional and business leaders managed these initiatives. An Elite Leadership Atlanta's leadership was largely...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...the annual Jazz and Heritage Festival markets itself through New Orleans-based music and cultural practices, the festival frequently offers meager salaries to local artists while generously compensating national musicians. Jazz...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...following the flood crisis of 1937. In this they made a partial break from the STFU's national leadership which was based in Memphis. This break included demands by local farmers...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...they would be publishing three days per week and focusing on online news; all four papers are owned by the media company Advance Publications. The Alabama Legislature passed Senator Gerald Dial's...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...His publications have appeared in Social Forces, Sociological Theory, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Social Science Quarterly, Sociological Spectrum, Narrative Inquiry, and The Journal of Comparative Family Studies....
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...Depression did more than spur the rise of the modern American regulatory state; it also saw the federal government take some ownership of the country's historical and cultural memory. After...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
...Bibler explores three frames: queer black fraternity, elite white planter homoeroticism, and “southern kitchen romance” Part 4: Bibler discusses the plantation and related literary social spaces and describes teaching his...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...also informed by colonial experiences in tropical medicine and disease control abroad, namely the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Panama Canal. In many ways, the southern states followed...