Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...of the earliest formations of a black popular music culture."6Kyra D. Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop. (New York: New York University Press,...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Tennessee Press, 2009); and Douglas Massey, ed., New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration, (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2008). The broad contours of Latino population...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...migrants is part of what demographers are calling the New Great Migration,15Dan Bilefsky, "For New Life, Blacks in City Head to South," New York Times, June 22, 2011, A1, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/nyregion/many-black-new-yorkers-are-moving-to-the-south.html;...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...this time frame), "grew up in a reality perplexingly divided by the intermingling of an emerging mass society and a decaying industrial culture." New technologies, new familial structures, new networks...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Imagery Distribution System (dvids), http://www.dvidshub.net/news/3054/west-virginia-national-guard-plays-vital-role-infantry-mission, September 19, 2005 KEN FEMA News Photo, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2, 2005. Photograph by Andrea Booher. "Harlow Pickett from Kenyon marks a building with...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...1950s," American Quarterly 56, no. 3 (September 2004). He is Past President of the American Studies Association (2001-2002), and is one of the co-editors of the book series, American Crossroads:...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...of people and encouraged their commitments to a narrowly configured version of American nationalism.11Susan Tenneriello, Spectacle Culture and American Identity: 1815–1940 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 2–14. In its heyday,...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...they want to live the "American Dream", they need to be American. Americans speak English. If we keep catering to these people they will have no reason to learn English....
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...1981);Young'uns: A Celebration (New York: Harper & Row, 1982); her memoir, Turned Funny; six mysteries, The Malignant Heart (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958), Ah, Sweet Mystery: A Kate Mulcay Mystery (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), Straight as an...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...German authors turned to questions of New Orleans as an economically viable port of entry to the American interior. Founded in 1847, the Deutsche Gesellschaft von New Orleans (a German-American...