Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...con-suetudinario y memoria: práctica jurídica y costumbre en Castilla y León (siglos XI–XIV) (Madrid: Universidad Carlos III, 2012); Yanna Yannakakis, The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity and...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...particular place can only produce a limited number of marketable artists) and, to a lesser degree, speculative exploration (that going to obscure places might yield a novel interpretation of the...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...toxic sludge, which contains concentrated toxic substances such as selenium, cadmium, boron, arsenic and nickel. In addition to the knowledge that these dams can break (as one did in Buffalo...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...Eastern Europeans, and Somali Bantu refugees. Columbia and West Columbia, South Carolina Map showing the Midlands of South Carolina, 2012. Columbia, the state capital, and West Columbia are in the...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...the Business of Broadcasting in America. (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1980), 153. "Unlike other major technologies—automobiles . . . or trains—that move us from one place to another,"...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...I moved to Charleston, South Carolina, to finish researching and writing my dissertation. Rawson: I came to Emory to continue studying culture in the US South, and I had a...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...The Cambridge Modern History Atlas (Cambridge University Press, 1912). Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin. Sparked by the Battle of Gonzales on October 2,...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...money owed him. He called the person's cell phone and was promised payment, but he never received it. Staff at the hiring hall in Duluth's Calvary Christian Fellowship assisted José,...
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...