An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...however, something unexpected happened. An African American named Brenda Ethridge stepped up to the microphone. She introduced herself as a descendant of Aunt Grace, the first slave owned by Chang...
Per Capita Income and Percentage of Residents Living Below The Poverty Line in Alabama Counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Region
...Below poverty line %: 15.1 Per capita income: $16,010 Houston Below poverty line %: 15.0 Per capita income: $18,759 Published: 16 March 2004 © 2004 Steve Bransford and Southern Spaces...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...race relations.2See for example, Joe Feagin, Free Enterprise City: Houston in Political Economic Perspective (Camden, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988); Christopher Silver, Twentieth Century Richmond: Planning, Politics, and Race (Knoxville: University...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...such as BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and Mobil that focus on deepwater drilling have predominantly relocated their operations to Houston. Methods for refining oil evolved dramatically—from boiling it (which contributed...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...Sean Hill reads the poem "In Memory Hill Cemetery." Poem text. About Sean Hill Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston. He...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...to know why a sprawling metropole ranks so low while other such commuter zones (such as Houston) rank higher, you might want to consider using this project's data to launch...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...they ferried across the Alabama River in the rural Black Belt. The quilters, known for their spectacular, handmade textile art exhibited in museums from New York to Houston to Atlanta,...
Editors
...Auslander, Central Washington University Nancy Baker, Sam Houston State University Peggy Barlett, Emory University Jack Bass, The College of Charleston Margaret Bauer, East Carolina University Patricia D. Beaver, Appalachian State...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...inches. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Gift of Gerald B. Smith with additional funds given at "One Great Night in November, 2002" in honor of Harvey Padewer. Radcliffe Bailey,...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...The Best American Poetry, and in Nikki Giovanni's 100 Best African American Poems. Brown holds a PhD from the University of Houston, an MFA from the University of New Orleans,...