Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...recounts how Association members promoted laws and zoning practices that shut down bars and blocked live music, leading to fewer venues for brass bands and other New Orleans musicians. The...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...to the onslaught of ecologically destructive development that looms on Cuba's horizon will come through cooperation and exchange, not isolation. What we do know about Cuba's agricultural innovations is that...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...other entertainment venues, scholarship on segregation at the drive-in is almost nonexistent. There are indications that such segregation may have been the norm in Dixie. Robert Weyeneth notes that the...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...of speed limits. The written legal code and the enforcement efforts do not always affect what one encounters on the highway. Despite the legal sanctioning of memorial plantings and state...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...That notion was precisely what had stoked the greatest fears of the Charleston "Lynch men": the possibility that abolitionist tracts might incite violent slave uprisings.12Wyly-Jones, "A New Look," 1. William...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Unearthing their worlds sheds light on a distinct history of emancipation that did not fully align with liberalism's trajectory, pushing us to move away from the teleological notion that modern...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...everywhere you need to go." A housing authority worker said: That was the biggest complaint that we had from the clients in that they were so used to the New...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...built company towns that provided workers with double-edged benefits: rental housing that was close to the mill or factory but tightly regulated, and a tightly knit community that kept outsiders...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...consuming recorded music. For Kun, "music functions like a possible utopia for the listener, that music is experienced not only as sound that goes into our ears and vibrates through...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...but advised angry blacks that "it might be well to remember that the black man had no rights until the white man gave him that 14th amendment to the Constitution...