"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...(585), Cubans 3.1 percent (799), and other Hispanics or Latinos 19.8 percent (5,158). On June 17, 2008 an Internet user by the name of Poodlestix posted an entry on City-Data.com,...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Atlanta region is now second only to the New York City MSA in terms of its number of black homeowners. Between 2000 and 2011, metro Atlanta's black homeowners nearly tripled...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...(unpublished manuscript, June 12, 2013), Microsoft Word file. What follows is an examination of three interconnected moments in Scott County's history. First, we discuss the conditions and struggles surrounding the...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...International, the busiest passenger airport in the world.7Jane Roberts, "Catch the Taxiway," Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 26, 2006, A1. Michael Gallis and Associates, FedEx and Northwest Airlines Routes, 2008. Less...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...of my life in which I became aware of the coal industry and of strip mining, partly because we could see strip mining from our house, and my dad talked...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
.... . . cocaine," inaugurating his drug-induced "trip" back to June 24, 1973. Nathan Lee Graham (Willie) staring at audience, Lynn Redgrave Theater, New York, February 2017. Directed by Scott...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...throughout the 1940s and 1950s. On June 11, 1963, Foster Auditorium entered the national spotlight when Alabama governor George Wallace refused to allow two African American students, Vivian Malone and...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Sensitive to Art & Its Discontents, June 10, 2014, accessed June 30, 2014, http://hyperallergic.com/130365/how-are-they-keeping-rats-off-kara-walkers-sugar-sculptures. A few volunteers answer questions of wandering visitors but overall we are left to draw our...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...the Disease Caused by the 'Lazy Worm'" New York Herald, June 24, 1905; "War on Lazy Worm: Good Effects of the Campaign in Puerto Rico," Star, September 15, 1905; and...