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,...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...a jazz banjo player from New Orleans named Don Vappie as an ultimate, socially adaptable, yet culturally grounded American—was a PBS film called American Creole.26American Creole: New Orleans Reunion, DVD,...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Arlene Dávila and Augistín Laó-Montes, eds., Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001). Ana Ramos-Zayas examines how Puerto Rican enclaves in Chicago became racialized...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Press, 1995); Dewey Grantham, The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds (New York: Harper Collins, 1994); and James Cobb and William Stueck, eds., Globalization and the American South...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...precariously sited urban area. http://tulane.edu/sse/eens/richard-campanella.cfm Ian J. Cohn, New York, New York. Photographer, designer, and architect. Cohn is a native of New Orleans and states, “My intent in taking the...
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;...
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,...
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...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...University of Southern California. He is the author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 (Oxford University Press, 1993), co-editor of Los Angeles and...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...A History of Its Major Programs, 1932-1961 (New York: Carlson, 1989). On the Scottsboro cases, see Dan T. Carter,Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969);...