"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...they did use panethnic labels they used "Hispanic" more frequently than "Latino." A nationwide Pew Hispanic Center survey revealed similar results. 51 percent of respondents preferred to use their family's...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...or the city has sprawled over land that used to be rural. Frequently people tell me something like, "My grandmother kept chickens. I used to love to gather the eggs."...
Religion and the US South
...evangelical and outreach projects, through better training for ministers in better-funded educational institutions, larger church facilities to provide more services for their followers, and extended networks made possible by improved...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
Introduction What role does cruising play in marking specific areas of the urban landscape as "queer territory"?1For the purposes of this essay, I use the word "queer" primarily in its...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...Ayers argued recently that southern independence did not occur because of the weakness of American nationalism, as is often assumed by scholars. Rather, southerners learned their regionalism because of their...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
..."The Public Market Place," El Escribano: The St. Augustine Journal of History 54 (October 1964): 1–18. The Spanish previously used the market as a guardhouse. A masonry structure with four...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Land Lottery Register, 250. Ross's Head of Coosa possessions included his two-story house, sixty-five acres of cultivated fields, a kitchen, work house, smoke house, blacksmith shop, wagon house, stables, slave...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...animosities between former Civil War adversaries continued, and paramilitary and mob violence against freedpeople and their descendants and allies went largely unchecked for decades.4Carole Emberton, Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...providing voucher funding. This near-complete freedom to instruct children in whatever way the voucher-supported private schools choose is often justified on the basis that such schools provide students a better...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Ozarks was so poor to begin with that they scarcely noticed. No, that's not right, because poverty’s so relative. A better way to put it is that folks in the...