Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Regional Research 30, no. 4 (December 2006): 737–757. New Urbanism and the Symbolic Economy on East Eleventh Street The Haehnel Building (top), 1101 E. 11th Street Austin, Texas, September 8,...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...from El Salvador, came to live with us in our house on the farm and a second refugee came from the town of Jacaltenango, Guatemala. El Sol Neighborhood Resource Center...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...broadly conceived program. I talked with interdisciplinary faculty and, whenever possible, hired bright project personnel who were themselves scholars. I was interested in how media innovations affect the way we...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Elsewhere, men and women have been painted in blackface, to reference minstrel shows that so disparaged African American culture. Women are also implicated. Elegantly dressed and coiffed, they may hold...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...off-guard like that. L.C.: You sure keep me off-guard. Elmer: What are you gonna play for us, son? L.C.: Let's do some "Lost Creek." Elmer: I've always wanted to hear...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...in operation. Animation by Steve Bransford and Brian Riedel, 2020. Dataset by Brian Riedel, 2015. ArcGIS map by Stephanie Bryan and Brian Riedel, 2020. That animation suggests several phases to...
Religion and the US South
...anything else. The mountains of east Tennessee were an important hearth for white Pentecostalism, giving birth to the Church of God, while the Deep South of Mississippi and nearby Memphis...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...Cemetery for ceremonies and speeches. Fort Walker and Rifle Pit Confederate Colonel Lemuel P. Grant designed over ten and half miles of earthwork fortifications and connecting trenches that encircled Atlanta...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...determine the conditions and qualifications for "eligibility, admission, and allocation of pupils, including the power to refuse admission to individuals or groups whose deficiencies in scholastic aptitude would compel undue...