Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Views of Black Americans," Journal of Politics 68, no. 3 (July 2006): 571–584; Heather A. Smith and Owen J. Furuseth, eds., Latinos in the New South: Transformations of Place (Aldershot,...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...old questions about social inequality and the regional history of investments and expectations for public education and economic prosperity. Debates continue about how best to allocate and utilize place-specific local...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...of Historic Places," Bristol Herald-Courier, 1 September 2007. In 2007, the Moonlite theater in Abingdon, Virginia became one of three drive-in theaters nationwide to be placed on the National Register...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...as long as production took place within one hundred kilometers of the border. Conceived as a way to provide jobs for agricultural workers who were returning to Mexico at the...
Encountering COVID
...them in times of crisis because it's a place to get news, it's a place to get out of your house, and it's a place to be around people in...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...their own meaning and influence. When we move between these places and scales of place discursively, we must be intentional and attentive. I also am a real believer in Southern...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...men Gilmer consulted about the number of companies and their placement. James Gamble to George R. Gilmer, March 16, 1838, "Cherokee Removal Letters," www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gachatto/corr/cherokee.htm; Thomas G. MacFarland to George R....
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...Of course, the very best sound is in the center of the hollow square. In this space, the singing is loudest and all four parts achieve their best balance. Many...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and GQ, and selected for the anthologies Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and The O. Henry Awards' Prize Stories. His...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...of its place and its people—those who have worked there as partners or staff, those who have shopped there, and those who have given their time to support the store....