Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...week after I bought it, while it traveled between Herman Wallecki & Sons of Los Angeles and southern Illinois, I dreamed of a guitar so old it had weathered gray...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...Doug Sahm) with the exception being Marcia Ball, who were already living in Texas or had gravitated to Austin's heterogeneous soundscape from New York, Los Angeles, or Nashville. Armadillo World Headquarters,...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...lynched African Americans for alleged offenses that challenged white supremacy, Villanueva argues that Anglos lynched Mexicans to police "citizenship and sovereignty" (5). Although Mexican Americans were "white by law" since...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...build networks of activism and care (13:40). Part Five Bridgforth on growing up in Los Angeles, raised by people from Memphis, and New Orleans, listening to stories, and writing to...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Healy, "Diabetes Belt: American South Gets More Health Notoriety," Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2011, accessed June 30, 2014, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/08/news/lat-diabetes-belt-20110308. Exhibited at the decaying Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn from...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...use the word "blues" to advertise her traveling act. With her husband William "Pa" Rainey, she toured extensively with a number of different traveling groups, including the famous Rabbit Foot...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...American West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011); Jon Hunner, Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004); Paul Loeb, Nuclear Culture: Living...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...