Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...is how most smuggling worked, and in many ways this is how it still works. Sometimes border people felt they should not have to pay extra for ordinary goods that...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...remembers 'that chairs were placed on the balcony of the two-story building to accommodate the crowds gathered to witness the lynching,' while he stayed behind locked doors in his office,...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...when he founded his company at the height of Jim Crow restrictions in 1952. The 8,761-square-foot residence on 714 Shorter Terrace signals the hard work and commitment of businessmen and...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...so many other entities, Bourbon Street recovered with little if any federal aid and zero charitable assistance. Bourbon Street was not only New Orleans's most successful invention, it was also...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...and Gus Van Sant befriended him and invited him to take photographs on their movie sets. More recently, Eggleston has had major exhibitions at galleries and museums around the world...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...based on the seedy potboiler Sanctuary, to 1959's The Sound and the Fury (starring Yul Brynner, of all people, as the sadistic Jason Compson), big screen adaptations of Faulkner's modernist...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...game. But how many mask a preoccupation with death, disease, lust, and rebirth without violating either the existential verities or their own sense of fun? More than any other Athens...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...perceived lynching as a staged performance, a "melodrama" in which white righteousness triumphed over black villainy. That Potter was lynched in an opera house may appear to be an unfortunate...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...York. He is author of Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (New York: NYU Press, 2007), Black Gay Men (New York: NYU Press, 2001), and...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...comfortable "back east" and in such august company. To Hardwig's mind, this image elegantly captures the "enormous gulf between the communities depicted in Murfree's dialect stories about the Tennessee mountains...