Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...California, January 26, 2012. Photograph by Flickr user Mikey Walley. Courtesy of Mikey Wally, Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0. New Orleans rap is everywhere and nowhere. Lil Wayne reigns as...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...in Hollywood, Maryland, Annapolis, Maryland, Historic Jamestowne, Virginia, Yorktown, Virginia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pensacola, Florida, Fernandina Beach, Florida, St. Augustine, Florida. Three locations have installed markers: Historic Jamestowne, Virginia; Yorktown, Virginia;...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
Essay No Southerner by origin, Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. "As I am an ardent Californian," she has Alice B. Toklas say in The Autobiography, "and as she...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...locations.7John R. Logan and Harvey Molotch, "Homes: Exchange and Sentiment in the Neighborhood," in Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987): 99–146; David Harvey,...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...towns, including population decline and reduced economic opportunities. City seal, Eatonville, Florida, 1999. Photograph by Tina Bucuvalas. Courtesy of the State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Eatonville, Florida, also founded...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 10. Along with the automobile, telephone, and electricity, radio emerged as a key technological component in the negotiations between rural people and government agencies over...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) as a model for understanding the consumption of American recorded music. His work also intersects with a growing literature...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland." King's empathetic analysis brought to light many of...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Career of Marihuana: Politics and Ideology of Drug Control in America (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1983); Dale H. Gieringer, "The Forgotten Origins of Cannabis Prohibition in California," Contemporary Drug Problems...