Residues of Border Control
...Security boxes, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010. Susan Harbage Page, Department of Homeland Security box with label, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010. Personal belongings boxes labeled by the Department of Homeland Security still contain...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Rivera Torres as one of the wealthiest men in Mexico with a net worth exceeding $100 million and over seventy-eight projects underway in Mexico." With help from Stanley Lane, a...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
Introduction I left Guatemala May 28. I had problems crossing into Mexico from Guatemala. Mexican officials threw me back eight times but I kept trying. They tried to get me...
"Aint that Something?"
...Dickey's Deliverance didn't help things— portraying Appalachian people as menacing, stupid, and inbred. The damaging stereotypes of Appalachia persist, as Emily Satterwhite explains in Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...a Human Rights Commission study found that approximately 70 percent of foreclosures in Austin occurred on the Eastside and recommended a ninety-day moratorium on new projects.71In 2000 approximately 15 percent...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...Appalachian households might attend college, but it does not come close to addressing the larger cultural problem of why high school kids in Appalachia often don't apply. In Hillbilly Elegy...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...I sketch four real historical bars that Weathers frequented: The Acme, Fernando's Hideaway, The Country, and Mary Ellen's Top Hat. I approach "Cheers" as a historical document that records how...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...Relative Poverty Rates in Appalachia, 2012–2016 (County Rates as a Percentage of the US Average), July 2018. Map by the Appalachian Regional Commission. Courtesy of the Appalachian Regional Commission. The...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...that attempted to return freed slaves to a de facto bondage. Beginning in Mississippi in 1865, these so-called "Black Codes" appeared to grant Black people certain legal rights for the...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...a longer history of Latinos in the Deep South9Julie M. Weise, Corazon de Dixie: Mexico and Mexicans in the US South since 1910 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,...