Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...transgressors as a "contrabandista community" (2), united in their unwillingness to pay extra for common merchandise to fill the coffers of US and Mexican treasuries. Los charros contrabandistas, Juego de...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...how their neighbors treated their dogs; entered others' yards to pick up trash; set the terms for participating in the community garden; and were often patronizing to lower-class neighbors. They...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
This week (October 22–28, 2012) is the sixth annual Open Access Week, a global event which presents opportunities for the academic and research community to celebrate and learn more about...
Glocal Lounge
...and specify globalization. By attending to the local and the regional, we can see globalization not as a singular imaginary or community, but as a nuanced, complex, contradictory, and historically...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...a community-based music with place (rather than solely with family, religious denomination, race, ethnicity, or another cultural marker) creates openings for individuals who fall outside the group previously associated with...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...manager, and musician within the New Orleans hip-hop community since 2008. She is a writer for the popular music website, The Smoking Section, and the Knowla Encyclopedia of Louisiana History, Culture, and Community....
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...Community with Music” About Nick Spitzer Nick Spitzer, folklorist and anthropologist, is known for his work with community-based cultures of the Gulf Coast, American vernacular music, musicians, craftspeople, documentary media,...
Sowing The Seed Underground
...and graduated from the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Montana in 1997. She currently resides in the Altamaha Community of Reidsville, Georgia, and teaches in the...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...MFA program, while supporting cutting-edge documentary work in photography, film and video, narrative writing, community studies, and documentary radio production. Dedicated to the ideals of social and environmental justice, CDS...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...small community emerged from poverty and built thriving businesses in plastics and direct-marketing. Osburn is especially interested in how the Choctaws navigated their way through Mississippi's racial currents, as powerful...