Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...city." September 9 Harold Street walks his daughter Lajuanda (right) and Jacqueline Griffith (left) to Glenn Elementary School, Nashville, TN, September 1957. © Nashville Public Library. A late-night thunderstorm swept across...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...by smartphone apps. As John Walker writes, "LGBTQ people have long used digital spaces as a means of connecting with others like themselves . . . Scruff et al. are...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...husband Richard while he was working as a ticket-taker at Christiansburg's now long-defunct Glen Theatre, which he co-owned along with his father and brother. The couple married, and, after selling...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...R. Rathge, 2018. Map created by Stephanie Bryan and Adam R. Rathge using ArcGIS, 2018. View larger version. Youth, Crime, and "Marijuana War" On February 18, 1922, the New Orleans...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...into the state's Francophone musical traditions, with a portable recording device in tow, began an intermittent but deeply influential engagement with Cajun and Creole music across his long career. Indeed,...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...and cover the monthly mortgage payment in an informal housing market similar to the encargado system among El Salvadorians in the suburbs of Long Island, New York.3In Long Island one...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...of social control.” Perhaps I am a victim of the nostalgic postmodern longing for community, but, at least for the historical period through WWII, community does seem more applicable here....
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 10. Along with the automobile, telephone, and electricity, radio emerged as a key technological component in the negotiations between rural people and government agencies over...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...of Thomas Jefferson's favorite plants. He discouraged gardeners from mimicking the plant choices of classical English gardens and instead championed the use of native southeastern US plants along with plants...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...part of Alabama wrong, but also perpetuates a longstanding stereotype of the whole South as generally disconnected from the modern world, culturally and geographically. I should confess here that I...