Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Memphis is positioned at a strategic interstate crossroads in the middle of the United States, midway between Monterrey, Mexico, and Toronto, Canada. A new interstate highway, I-69, the NAFTA superhighway...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
Encountering COVID
...you think that way? How can you think that way? It's Fox News. People have had it in their homes for so long. Fox was pitting us against each other,...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...willing to understand their way of life and to respect them as people who have something to offer in their way."28John Cohen, "Field-Trip – Kentucky," Sing Out!, vol. 10, no....
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...places. Understanding the ways that place-based identities change within rap is of central importance.[/fn] Photograph of Atlanta’s Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz at a local landmark (Ichiban Records,...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...for some of the lowest paid and most dangerous jobs in the country.3For more on the poultry industry see Donald D. Stull and Michael J. Broadway, Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Nanook and his walrus and the men of Aran and their sharks, he does not—and never did—hunt them in the way Flaherty stages. In many ways, Boudreaux's life did imitate...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...the end of a neighborhood street. Richard and Dot Beasley opened the Starlite in 1952. At one time, the theater competed with the Hiway, the Autodrome, and the Midway in...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...classes were dismissed, several cars full of men were parked around the driveway entrance. Minutes earlier, a taxi had pulled up near the cars, and then driven away. When most...