Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...in 1912, marries another Greek immigrant, has a family, and and by the 1920s owns a business. Members of the Karkambasis (James) family come and go, live and die, between...
Old billboard, Jacksonville, Florida, 2005
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...credibility of their new state with the rest of the nation and with business investors. Both essays underscore how drastically conditions in these two states differed from those in the...
When the Border Crossed Me
...me, let alone foreign workers. Yet, on that hot afternoon thirty years ago, I joined the thousands of farmers and other business owners who have hired people who have traveled...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...businesses. The town experienced the development of new public works and utilities, restaurants and hotels, schools and churches. Replete with ambiguity and tension, Salisbury's urbanization did not preclude racial oppression....
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...(bottom left) Closet of distress; (bottom right) Unoccupied commuter mall with stray business cards and ATV tracks. Henry County 2009 Photobooks by Robert Adams and Bill Owens emphasize and challenge...
Spencer's Inc., Mount Airy, North Carolina, 2010
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...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
..."a businessman who'd wanted there to be a downtown attraction that honored local peanut growers" (52). The iconic goober's origins are well known and clearly explained, and its removal is...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...by Emma Lirette. Sakakeeny charts how projects such as the construction of Interstate 10 through the central business corridor of the Tremé, and the demolition of multiple blocks to build...