Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, offered justifications for its programming in the public interest. The station noted the track record of its radio operation as an "important medium of cultural expression...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...image of Nashville’s ‘new sonido.’12For research on immigration to Nashville, see Jamie Winders, “Placing Latinos in the Music City: Latino Migration and Urban Politics in Nashville, Tennessee,” in Latinos in...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...to be obliterated in the post–World War II era by urban growth.27Ibid., 52. Fort Walker remains a notable Atlanta Civil War site, protected by its location in a municipal park...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...and they couldn't catch me. I was in the army in Guatemala, so I had a compass. I took a train through Mexico. I swam across the Rio Grande. I...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...and New York.54Josephine Machon, Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); See especially "The Scale of Immersivity," 93–102. Vernon explains in their author's notes...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...world"), partly optimistic ("You never know").32Weathers, Shitkickers, 39. Here, in a story set in the 1960s but self-published in 1987, Weathers invokes the Women in Print Movement, in which she...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...as Jheri had requested, I rang her eighty-six-year-old mother back in Smith County, Mississippi. Reverting to my old southern accent, I said, "Miz Jones? This is John Howard. I'm calling...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...sites of immigrant settlement in suburban Atlanta Part 5: Increased surveillance andcontrol of immigrant workers in Georgia Part 6: The construction of Latino spaces and communities, specifically Latin American Catholicism in the...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...convinced that I understood the documentary process well enough. Although I had conducted many interviews at GPB, I was nervous that I wasn't properly prepared. But what I was most...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...is natural to any one thinking that it is pleasant to be one.... Once in talking and saying that in America the best material is used in the cheapest things...