Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...creative class, a defense that at once privileges the economic, aesthetic, and cultural tastes of the outsider, the colonizer, the upper class, while also staking a claim—through experience-knowledge and pseudo-scholarly...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976); Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 (Cambridge:...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...of discrimination against blacks, although they usually did so with words rather than dynamite. LULAC leader Tijerina enforced a strict Jim Crow policy at his business. "He took the unusual...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...highlight. For a movie that seems to have "the business" buzzing, this was a decidedly understated debut, which makes sense given the subtlety with which Linklater has emerged as one...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...spaces for job talks and self-improvement classes, and ubiquitous coffee shops and bars. These developments are creating new buzz about Atlanta's future. The Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, Georgia. Photograph courtesy of...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...classified by number. We heard the poetry in old names used by local fishermen and women perhaps because Stoops’ background includes an English degree, making him inclined to favor the...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...reservoirs of stereotypical abjection? Why summon inaccurate, dirty cliches about the hopeless lot of underclass blacks, Louisiana, and the marginal Southland, so blindly? I want to argue that these criticisms,...
The Change
...big business in the Reagan era and the slow murder of method from a hundred years before. When the loons cried out in laughter by the springs and the bass...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...small town of Middendorf, twelve miles north of Hartsville. Born to a working-class family, Gainey picked cotton at an early age with his brothers, sister, and cousins. Through relatives and...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...Karlsberg, P. Dan Brittain teaches a "rudiments of music" class at Camp Fasola Europe, Chmielno, Poland, 2012. A key concern of European singers was how they should negotiate between their...