Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...will become a "world-class" city with references to enhancing the dynamics of distribution, promoting a revitalized downtown, building sports arenas, expanding the zoo, redeveloping the riverfront, and promoting the city's...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...6 (2009): 1044. Graffiti, Spanish signage, and For Sale sign, Buenaventura Lakes, Florida, 2010. Photographs by Simone Delerme. Non-Hispanic white, English-speaking Central Floridians' opposition to the Spanish language and Hispanics'...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...my documentation I sought to explore the significance of these roadside memorials to the meaning of the modern American South. In this photo essay, I have culled twenty photographs from...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...into the Festivals Acadiens et Créoles. And, perhaps more significantly, it became a training ground for undergraduate French student and budding folklorist Barry Jean Ancelet, whose career in applied and...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...game on display inside and outside the house, exude a contemporary animist faith of sorts. In the demanding and sometimes cruel code of honor that even the most “outlaw” members...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...1–9. The dish, known as "'possum and 'taters," was one of many items of "southern cooking," which, as Diane Spivey points out, signified a "Whites Only Cuisine" during Jim Crow.7Diane...
Deep Ellum Blues
...ownership of all its public land, making the State of Texas the nation's largest land promoter, aside from Uncle Sam himself. And in Texas, no city was so conceived and...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...They are kept in the History & Genealogy Department of the John F. Germany Public Library in downtown Tampa. With Federal grants, library budget funds, and Friends projects, they have...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...road signs now posted on the state routes entering Hoboken and in a new social studies unit for Brantley County eighth graders.73Both signs and curriculum are initiatives of retired Waycross,...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...Rape, won numerous awards. This area of inquiry is highly significant to our discussion today since the McGirt case not only has to do with tribal jurisdiction, but also with...