Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...“Mound Bayou,” Mississippi Encyclopedia, July 11, 2017, https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/mound-bayou/. At its height, Mound Bayou, the “Jewel of the Delta,” housed successful Black businesses, a public school system, and a community-run hospital.2Rosen,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...that in the early twenty-first century we are calling the Global South. Industrial Waves, 1780–2008 Figure 1. Ratio of Employment in Manufacturing to Agriculture 1800–2000. Copyright: Peter Evans and Sarah...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...black families and middle class black families. Mary Pattillo-McCoy, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 20. So while middle-class...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...to the WAVY statement is in Classen, Watching Jim Crow, 49. Classen considers the WAVY statement a thinly veiled "studied neutrality." Because we do not know whether WAVY broadcast anything...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...area has undergone significant demographic change as middle class whites and upscale businesses have moved in.3Ryan Robinson, "Top Ten Demographic Trends in Austin, Texas," http://www.austintexas.gov/page/top-ten-demographic-trends-austin-texas, accessed December 18, 2014. Robinson...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...attended local cultural, political, and business-related events, and collected information at churches, schools, and businesses. My research combines traditional anthropological methods with textual analysis to interweave data gathered through participant...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...late seventies, which reflected a growing national discussion about the "black underclass"68Michael B. Katz, "The Urban 'Underclass' as a Metaphor of Social Transformation," in The "Underclass" Debate, Views from History,...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...racism and racial oppression. Though Woody Guthrie is used as a foil to demonstrate vernacular music's relationship to class, Comentale misses an opportunity to demonstrate just how class contributed to...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...professionals still work there. Its fans and participants aspire to transcend or dissolve regional expectations, theological boundaries, and denominational classifications. The music remains popular among white evangelicals and many African...