Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...to the downtown was apparent. Eleventh Street is one of only two downtown streets that bridge I-35, the physical barrier between minority and Anglo neighborhoods since its completion in 1962....
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
..."the shifting element" made up 56 percent of the workforce, and only 25 percent of southern workers stayed in the same mill for twelve months or longer.29Ethel L. Best, Lost...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...the special and active exchange that occurs between the performance and the audience member[] illustrat[es] the breakdown of division between audience and creative crew."56Machon, Immersive Theatres, 98. The orientation of...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...of elite enslavers and to embrace free labor.15The antislavery pamphlet, "An Address to the Citizens of South Carolina," by "Brutus" circulated in the 1849 campaign (and was actually found with...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...fathers to sons and in the supposedly free exchange of affectional ties between a male and female of his choice—becomes the mythically revered privilege of a free and freed community"...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...appear on your 'Dance Party'?"42Hazel Jordan, letter to J.D. Lewis (WRAL), May 8, 1966, Lewis Family Papers, folder 140. Fans also felt free to criticize the format of Teenage Frolics....
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...animosities between former Civil War adversaries continued, and paramilitary and mob violence against freedpeople and their descendants and allies went largely unchecked for decades.4Carole Emberton, Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and...
Religion and the US South
...evangelical and outreach projects, through better training for ministers in better-funded educational institutions, larger church facilities to provide more services for their followers, and extended networks made possible by improved...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...electric knives, and electric ice crushers.21"Sunbeam Clocks Made in Forest." A BAWI bond of nearly one million dollars facilitated construction of a state-of-the-art, air-conditioned Sunbeam factory, which provided jobs to...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...stay.42Victor Manuel Ramos, "Between 2 Worlds: Puerto Ricans remember roots as they sink new ones," Orlando Sentinel, February 5, 2006. That sign came, quite literally, as he passed a billboard...