Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...African American populations in roughly equal numbers. Reflecting this demography, Texas maintained a "dual Jim Crow system" (5) which enforced discrimination against both populations through a hodge-podge of laws and...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...and Anglo-American racialization as non-white.20Fernando Purcell, "Becoming Dark: The Chilean Experience in California, 1848–1870," in How the United States Racializes Latinos, 54–67. Similarly, Hispanic entrepreneurs in Houston, Texas, employed a...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...53. Front cover of Crowning Day (Dayton, VA: Ruebush-Kieffer, 1900). Courtesy of Douglas Harrison. At the end of the nineteenth century and into the first three decades of the twentieth...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...a Forgotten Rebellion and its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 27-37. For Johnson the railroad penetrated the isolated region along the Texas-Mexico border...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Houston and Texas Central Railroad in 1872, followed by the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1873. From an early moment less reputable saloons began to operate around the H&TC station...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
..."Vanishing" Texan and the retrenchment of Texas masculinity. In "You a Real Cowboy?: Texas Chic in the Late Seventies," he reviews the iconic films The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...University Campus and Vicinity, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1919. Map by unknown creator. Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ut_austin_historical_maps.html. Central to Austin’s growth, the University of Texas...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
Review Kelly Yandell, Foodways Texas oyster tasting at Gaido's Restaurant, Galveston, Texas, 2011. On a late February Saturday night in Galveston, Texas, I stood shoulder to shoulder with a hundred...