Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...International, the busiest passenger airport in the world.7Jane Roberts, "Catch the Taxiway," Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 26, 2006, A1. Michael Gallis and Associates, FedEx and Northwest Airlines Routes, 2008. Less...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...decision was "based on an amendment adopted at a time when many of their forebears were disfranchised."18Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 5, 1963. "Dr. King Decides," Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 5, 1963. For...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...(unpublished manuscript, June 12, 2013), Microsoft Word file. What follows is an examination of three interconnected moments in Scott County's history. First, we discuss the conditions and struggles surrounding the...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Texas, June 20, 1961. Photograph by Robert Wilner (Houston Post). Courtesy of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center and the Houston Public Library. Identifier RGD0006N-1961-5656-1. Although Levine's work gives an important...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...ARA board. See A. D., "ARA Board Member Helps Himself," Austin Chronicle, January 12, 1996, http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/1996-01-12/530368/; Mike Clark-Madison, "The ARA Myth: Empty Promises on the Eastside," Austin Chronicle, June 20,...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Guatemala. And while men still make up the majority of Maya migrants, a growing number of women and children have joined husbands, fathers, and brothers in Georgia, resulting in a...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...New York Times, March 7, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/theater/the-view-upstairs-review.html. The View UpStairs animates the real life Up Stairs Lounge gay bar environment on the eve of an arson attack on June 24,...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Sensitive to Art & Its Discontents, June 10, 2014, accessed June 30, 2014, http://hyperallergic.com/130365/how-are-they-keeping-rats-off-kara-walkers-sugar-sculptures. A few volunteers answer questions of wandering visitors but overall we are left to draw our...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
...an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he directs the creative writing program. York has published two books of poetry, Murder Ballads (2005), and A...