The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...names and products pitched alongside LaFollette's talented pickers and singers. Wherever there was a parade, political rally, or summer concert in the park, you'd find the Blue Valley Boys and...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...to navigate. One major change from the earlier design was a transition from publishing articles on multiple pages to just a single scrolling page. This transition made sense as page...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...her condo in Long Beach, California. I had spent the past few weeks perusing her papers at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles mostly on a...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...exposé entitled "The Victim" chronicled what many believed was happening to an alarming number of youthful users. In the parlor of a former mansion turned tenement, reporter Lyle Saxon sat...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...mediate on workers' behalf should their employer not pay them. If a worker was not paid wages or was paid below the agreed upon wage, hiring halls contacted employers to...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...them, crushing debt, frustration on the part of the masters and the enslaved, paternalistic ideals by white people, experiments with the colonization movement, and the fact that the columned Arlington...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...Formerly enslaved men and women were constantly acting within networks—kinship relations, social hierarchies, labor markets, and bureaucracies—of particular reach, at particular scales, to find whatever stability and autonomy they could...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Racial Patterns and Enrollment Shifts in Urban Public Schools, 1987–1996, Working Paper 7290 (Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999), http://www.nber.org/papers/w7290; Freeman, "The Shifting Geography of Urban Education." This concentrates...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...Bunny Friend Park for an all-afternoon event featuring Partners-n-Crime, Choppa, Keedy Black, 8-9 Boyz, Iris P, 10th Ward Buck, 5th Ward Weebie, Hot 8 brass band, Free Agents brass band,...
Religion and the US South
...the group is hardly known in other parts of the South. Religious traditions that are outside the predominant evangelical Protestantism have special significance within particular places in the South. Ethnic...