Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...things like that, anything that's manual labor, sweep, mop, clean the bathrooms, anything that's unskilled and just requires a body. Not too much on the [manufacturing] line, and if it...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...irony through emphasizing stereotypes of the free-loving hippie and the provincial redneck. But just how ironic depictions can transcend the dualism of the hippie-redneck alliance with rhetoric that highlights those...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...Amistad announced on December 3 that they will be adding New Orleans hip-hop and bounce music to their historic collection. "Recent donations by the NOLA Hiphop Archive and the Where...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...Texas include the central role of religious history. He identifies shared ideas and beliefs that, in the nineteenth century, gave rise to a cultural perspective that largely shaped the state's...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...them that did many things. But from discussions with scholars about what would be useful to them, one point kept emerging. While the basic assumption of the projects was that...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...around and within, creating a geography that is boundary crossing and somewhat nebulous by definition and limitation. In such a vast space, what is the rationale for the foci of...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
..."what is southern studies studying?" to "what does southern studies do?" As the essayists in this volume strip away the mystifying assumption of difference or otherness, they show us what...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...a too-neat linearity at play—one that elides both institutional forces that lure writers and artisanal bread makers into poor and working-class neighborhoods and other neighborhood life-cycles that somehow remain in...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...and this I understand She wants a freeholder and I've got no land But I could maintain her on silver and gold And as many of the fine things as...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...there are countries that aren't found in the atlas and they have "soft borders" and that these natural countries are "populated by native plants and animals that have endured since...