"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...attended local cultural, political, and business-related events, and collected information at churches, schools, and businesses. My research combines traditional anthropological methods with textual analysis to interweave data gathered through participant...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...heavily scripted pieces, this video also provides the most autobiographical representation of what Louisiana "means" to its videographers. It also makes use of interviews and common cultural objects or motifs...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...southern studies alongside studies of immigration to the South, highlighting their disciplinary, methodological, empirical, and political differences. Although these fields have yet to speak to each other in sustained fashion,...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...worked to forge a borderlands economy through the promotion of railroads, mining, and commercial agriculture under Porfirio Díaz. Santiago Vidaurri, a regional strongman and ally of Díaz who exercised political...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Historical Atlas of Georgia Counties, http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/histcountymaps/index.htm; Ga. Acts, Dec. 3, 1832, http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu; Daniel Haskel and J. Calvin Smith, A Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of America...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: The Raymond Andrews Story Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: The Raymond Andrews Story, 2010. I came to the work of Raymond Andrews in 2002, my final year...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...districts. Patterns of Segregation Social scientists use multiple measures of segregation trends in education. In the Atlanta Metro region measures of racial isolation reveal changes in district-level racial composition between...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...constraining it within the closed temporal field of the podcast's strictly sequential form. Although Rooney argues that "S-Town's queerly intermedial form counteracts its ends-driven sequential form and its death-driven themes,"...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...creed, “just play.” Oh-OK, Wow Mini Album cover, DB Records, 1982. Child’s play as an aesthetic could mean many things: a simple or primal sound, a juvenile visual style, or...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...1973), 239–240, 299–300. Brown uses the West-Central African worldsense to discern the spiritual dimensions of mundane acts, such as planting, fishing, and hunting, as well as the African spiritual elements...