Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...underinvest in others, such as commitments to public education, has affected the city's approach to economic development in the postindustrial era and its prospects for success as a "comeback city."1Paul...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...brazos: apuntes sobre la manumisión en Cuba (Santiago: Editorial Oriente, 2009). Beyond the Iberian Atlantic, among others, Randy Sparks and Rosemary Brana-Shute, eds., Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...promotional photographs. Their images depict the Ybor City Museum, a converted Cuban bakery on the grounds of Ybor City State Park. They speak to Ybor City's later role as a...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...a large portion of the city's African American population is living in poverty, the city has a disturbingly high crime rate. The city also has an inferior public-school system, which...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...it were adopted even now.13John Nolen, City Planning Report: St. Petersburg Today, St. Petersburg Tomorrow (St. Petersburg, FL: St. Petersburg City Planning Board, 1923), https://friendsofsaltcreek.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/St-Petersburg-Today-St-Petersburg-Tomorrow-1923-Nolen-Plan-1.pdf; St. Petersburg Conceptual Plan (City...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...is Bengie's, which is east of the District in Baltimore; Ellen McCarthy, "Half a Century Later, Nostalgia for Stephens City's Silver Screen." Washington Post, 18 July 2008, City Guide. On...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...authenticity, a retreat from the commercialism of contemporary mass culture. And yet, while folk song collectors like Cohen longed to leave the city for the mountains, many in the mountains...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...city's users.11Between May 1923 and December 1929, the Times-Picayune published at least three hundred stories with references to marijuana, roughly one per week. The number of articles mentioning marijuana more...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...made it outside the city. In a prelude to the expansive years, the early 1990s saw a number of national chart-climbing, "one-hit-wonder" releases from Atlanta-based or -connected artists, including D-Roc's...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Clayton, Cynthia Hewitt, and Gregory Hall, "Atlanta and 'The Dream': Race, Ethnicity, and Recent Demographic and Socioeconomic Trends," Past Trends and Future Prospects of the American City: The Dynamics of...