Deep Ellum Blues
...property that was adjacent to the railway tracks. It is this kind of public improvement that promotes city growth." Growth northward. This was the era that fixed the division between...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...central theme of Behind the White Picket Fence is that middle-class whites utilize many resources to maintain power while simultaneously extolling the virtues of their multiethnic environment. Deploying what Mayorga-Gallo terms a...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...don’t want and the ones who are griping and complaining are usually the ones that are lazy and don’t want to work. I think that that’s what a lot of...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...social, cultural, and economic changes that created the atmosphere of "beachy tropicality and Caribbean escapism" that characterize Bourbon Street's continuous parade in the twenty-first century (228). In between, he traces...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...that included a musician named Dewey Balfa who sat in on guitar when the group performed at that year's festival. Newport rejuvenated interest and pride for traditions thought by some...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...another wife and so I need not trouble myself about that one; but I told him those that God had joined together let no man put asunder, and that I...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Mace generalizes, for example, that "readers in Seattle and Denver were somewhat sympathetic to the Till family, while readers in San Francisco were largely disinterested in the Till case" (124)....
Inside Poor Monkey's
...that is often referred to as a "tin." It is windowless, but has three doors. The front sports several faded, hand-painted signs. One describes the dress code by saying "not...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...concluded that "it is not sufficient to say that I should have to take food with me or that I should have lived on grapes and peanuts. If I am...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...As a society's self-portrait, displaying its aspirations and decorative schemes, such a collection is defined as much by what it excludes or treats as background as by what it includes....