Sweep
...lived here all year I'd buy American, I'd drive a truck, and I'm thinking of football and my father's and Mike's words staking out an absence I know I won't...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...Orleans provided warehouses to store the river’s goods, businessmen to buy and sell them, and captains to transport them. Powell gives vivid portraits of the different visions of empire that...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...and buying natural fibers can create change in the absence of the hard work of lobbying and community organizing. Traffic on River Road heading toward Valero, Destrehen, Louisiana. Photograph by...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...tan / my hair is fine / My hips invite you . . . Whose little girl am I? / Anyone who has money to buy / What do they...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...cultural legacy and began to buy houses. In founding the Historic Faubourg Tremé Association these newcomers hoped to tackle, according to their mission statement "blight, crime, and grime" (29). Sakakeeny...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
A Mess of Poke
...page, "The decision to stop processing poke was primarily because of the difficulty of finding people interested in picking poke and bring it to our buying locations." Poke lacks a...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...