Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...paid much notice, then, as six-year-old Joy Smith, holding the hand of her father, Kelly Miller Smith—pastor of one of Nashville's most historic black churches, First Baptist Capitol Hill, and...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/drive-in.html?c=y&page=1. The Starlight Six is owned and operated by the De Anza Land and Leisure Corporation, a family-run business that once owned over forty drive-ins across the country, and which...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Views of Black Americans," Journal of Politics 68, no. 3 (July 2006): 571–584; Heather A. Smith and Owen J. Furuseth, eds., Latinos in the New South: Transformations of Place (Aldershot,...
Arkansas Delta, Brinkley, Arkansas, 2008
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Smith, “Across Races and Nations: Social Justice Organizing in the Transnational South,” in Latinos in the New South: Transformations of Place, ed. Heather Smith and Owen Furuseth, 235-256 (Aldershot, England;...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...newspaper clipping, ca. 1947. Scan by Flickr user Ted Kerwin. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. In the mid-1940s, Dottie Colson and her blacksmith husband Henry, along with daughters Hazel...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at 94 in 1982. During the 1980s, Houston endured the double impact of HIV/AIDS and the long economic fallout of the 1981 oil bust. The number of queer businesses began...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...Photograph by Jonathon M. Smith. Courtesy of Jonathon M. Smith. The hollow square also improves the sound of Sacred Harp singings in ways both practically and aesthetically valued by singers....
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...was proposed by geographer Neil Smith in 1979 to explain why gentrification occurs. Smith proposed that once ground rents (or real estate prices) get low enough in an area relative...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...