Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...hastened neighborhood change. A number of scholars have criticized New Urbanism's complicity with capital in creating exclusionary spaces and "geographies of otherness," which reinforce or replicate spatial divisions.17K. Till, "Neotraditional...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...French Colonial period. In the late fifties and early sixties, Phương Anh was required to complete mandatory military service for young men in their twenties. A former teacher of Vietnamese...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...Alabama Cooperative Extension Service's integration plan. Judge Frank M. Johnson's September 1971 decree not only illuminated the degree of discrimination throughout Alabama's extension service, but also prescribed remedies to correct...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...who largely avoided Jimmy's room and failed to convince his mother (over the phone) to come to visit her dying son, Ruth returned to Jimmy's room. And it was as...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the refugees saw the inequality of federal policies and their shared misery from a new perspective. When the Red Cross, U.S. Public Health Service, and Resettlement Administration (to be reorganized as...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...Photo by Gary Cosby Jr. Courtesy of Tuscaloosa News. Like most listeners, I'm sure, what I love best about S-Town is McLemore's irrepressible character and voice. McLemore was an antique...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...for the best analysis of this linkage). Across the US South in the mid-1950s, local television news had a wide effect on the shape of the struggle over civil rights,...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Antonio. These gay bars, as Weathers told me, serviced a mixed-gender crowd of men and women on a daily basis and were the source of friendships, hook-ups, and committed relationships....
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...towns. Gentrification is occurring, but the area remains relatively cheap, isolated, hard to get to, and modest, especially outside the historic districts and areas close to campus. And somehow, within...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...also been highly uneven. Until Hurricane Katrina and the need for cheap immigrant labor to rebuild New Orleans, for instance, Louisiana had little Latino population growth. Within the historic “Black...