Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...met weekly and organized social and religious events, such as the Santa Eulalia celebration.3Interviews with Antonio (2001, 2002, 2003) and Maria (2003). Alfredo, Antonio’s nephew, headed for the United States...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...for Cherokee County ("Where Metro Meets the Mountains") approximately forty miles north of downtown Atlanta, is not Francisco's final destination.2Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, "Discover Cherokee!" https://cherokeechamber.com. "My uncle works carpentry,...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...at Chapel Hill for digitizing the 1920s market bulletins from Raleigh, North Carolina, which appear in the video. This presentation, given at Woodruff Library at Emory University, April 24, 2012,...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Latino populations have been growing faster than in other areas of the country.7Richard Fry, Latino Settlement in the New Century, October 23, 2008 (Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center), http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/96.pdf. For...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Brothers, An Exhibit with an airplane made of cigars at the Florida State Fair, Tampa, Florida, 1941. Catalog no.: B29-f-00003493. Burgert Brothers, A man serenading a señorita at the Davis...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...AAA in 1933 escalated in 1936 after the Supreme Court declared the AAA unconstitutional. The new agricultural control legislation that replaced it came into effect in 1938 and guaranteed tenants...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...environmental activist with the Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition, who expresses distress for how the I-26 project affects North Carolina communities and wilderness. (November 29, 2000. Approx. 1 1/2 hours. Streaming...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...Latinos Protest in the South," Los Angeles Times, March 30, 2006, A16. Indeed, as the movement to protect immigrant rights began to grow throughout the South, more activists who had...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Berea, Madison County, Kentucky, February 2, 2014. Photograph by Meg Wilson. http://lookingatappalachia.org/kentucky#/id/i9137333. Figure 10: Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia, August 29, 2014. Photograph by Ashley Hoffman. http://lookingatappalachia.org/west-virginia#/id/i8645479. Figure 11: Braddock,...