Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Times-Picayune (New Orleans), 23. In a third incident, Juan Horgoros, a "Spanish Seaman," faced marijuana possession charges following his arrest by a customs official.79"Spanish Seaman Held," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), October...
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...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...a little girl and ultimately spent most of her adult life, a permanent expatriate. During the decades she spent as a fomenter of several major waves of International Modernism, alongside...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
The Shenandoah Valley
...quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea." The Valley's natural resources,...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...bohemian Athens to the early nineties when Seattle became the center of American alternative culture, the Athens scene produced amazingly good music, from famous groups like the B-52s, R.E.M., and...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
In Search of Justice Mother Jones once said, "There is no peace in West Virginia, because there is no justice [in West Virginia]." This is as true today as when...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...more substantial narrative of events, see Melissa Fay Greene, The Temple Bombing (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996). Within fifteen minutes of the blast, staff at United Press International received a call...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...