Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...together with dire warnings about its growing use. Prominent physicians and government officials fostered and reinforced these characterizations, and the purported connections between marijuana use and criminal activity. Arrest locations...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
..."community theaters" as "sites of cultural memory" that "include but are not limited to cinema, family narratives and histories, the church, the social dance, the nightclub, the skating rink, and...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...removal site. As the home of the Cherokee Nation's most prominent leaders and the location of two military removal stations, Rome, Georgia has much to teach. Measuring Chains and Axes...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...the 1980s; African Americans had served barbecue at this site since at least the early 1960s. The corridor, formerly the hub of black commerce and social life during the era...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...frontier period of the region between 1670 and 1750. As members of the Niger-Congo language family, captives from Senegambia, the Bight of Biafra, and West-Central Africa—the most well-represented regions of...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Wallace had no intention of permitting any Alabama official to accept or implement token integration in the schools without an opportunity for him to publicly display his fight for complete...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...the Constitution of 1824 officially establishing the First Mexican Republic (Primera República Federal), known as the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos). As the EUM sorted out its leadership and...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...engaged to work at a construction site, conference center, sports arena, hotel, or private residence. At these work sites, day laborers performed some of the most dangerous and physically-demanding work...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Vinson III, "Introduction: African (Black) Diaspora History, Latin American History," The Americas 63.1 (2006): 1–18, and Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico (New York: Cambridge...
The Shenandoah Valley
...Native American tribes burned large sections of it annually and settled in villages along its many streams and rivers. In the eighteenth century the Valley was the backcountry frontier of...