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Cracker: the cracker culture in Florida history
Title
Cracker: the cracker culture in Florida history.
Creator
SainteClaire, Dana
Abstract/Description
Part history, part folklore, this is an account of the Cracker heritage of North Florida, its history, and its disappearance as today's fast-paced society reaches into the remote backwoods. From the language they spoke to the houses they built, from moonshine stills and cowhunting to ""grits and gravy,"" Dana Ste. Claire offers a tour of Crackerdom. 
Date Issued
1998
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000372
Subject Headings
White people -- Florida -- Social life and customs, Florida -- Social life and customs, Florida -- Rural conditions
Format
E-book
Tales of Palm Beach and Florida
Title
Tales of Palm Beach and Florida.
Creator
Thomas, Elisabeth R. 
Abstract/Description
The climber -- The rise of Susie Marvin -- The fish charmer -- Jeunesse a la mode -- The clue -- A sinister romance -- The Marquise de Hautcoeur -- Sweet charity -- A sketch in vaudeville.
Date Issued
192?
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000397
Subject Headings
Upper class -- Florida -- Palm Beach, Palm Beach (Fla.) -- Social life and customs, Florida -- Social life and customs, Florida -- Palm Beach
Format
E-book
Cultural and spatial perceptions of Miami's Little Havana
Title
Cultural and spatial perceptions of Miami's Little Havana.
Creator
Cordoba, Hilton A., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Geosciences
Abstract/Description
Miami's "Little Havana" is known by many for its famous Southwest 8th Street, the Calle Ocho festival, and for the many Latin people, particularly Cubans, that live in the area. However, the current name of the neighborhood hides all of the dynamics of neighborhood change and creates the notion that Little Havana is a static monoculture neighborhood. This study measured people's perception of Little Havana by surveying 153 residents to identify the cultural associations and to capture the...
Show moreMiami's "Little Havana" is known by many for its famous Southwest 8th Street, the Calle Ocho festival, and for the many Latin people, particularly Cubans, that live in the area. However, the current name of the neighborhood hides all of the dynamics of neighborhood change and creates the notion that Little Havana is a static monoculture neighborhood. This study measured people's perception of Little Havana by surveying 153 residents to identify the cultural associations and to capture the participant's spatial perceptions of Little Havana. This study found that survey participants from inside the study area associated Little Havana more with Cuban culture and had more positive things to say about the neighborhood. Finally, this study suggests that the core of Little Havana was encompassed by West Flagler Street on the north, Southwest 8th Street on the south, Southwest 27th Avenue on the west, and Southwest 4th Avenue on the east.
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Date Issued
2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3174508
Subject Headings
Cuban Americans, Social life and customs, History, Description and travel, Social life and customs
Format
Document (PDF)
THE ETHNIC WEB Socio-Spatial Characteristics of South Florida’s Brazilian Community
Title
THE ETHNIC WEB Socio-Spatial Characteristics of South Florida’s Brazilian Community.
Creator
Rebegel, Adrian C., Koppelman, Carter, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Sociology, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
This thesis examines South Florida’s Brazilian community’ spatial organization in the region and its socio-cultural features in order to understand the nature of this immigrant community and the characteristics of its spatial structure. To do so, this study uses qualitative interviews with members of Brazilian community with the purpose of understanding how they make decisions of where to live, how they are connected to the broader community, how the community affects their individual...
Show moreThis thesis examines South Florida’s Brazilian community’ spatial organization in the region and its socio-cultural features in order to understand the nature of this immigrant community and the characteristics of its spatial structure. To do so, this study uses qualitative interviews with members of Brazilian community with the purpose of understanding how they make decisions of where to live, how they are connected to the broader community, how the community affects their individual experiences of living in the region and plan for the future. In addition, using secondary literature, it will compare the transformation of Brazilians ethnic community with that of the Cuban, Haitian and Russian communities located in South Florida. Situating this case within ongoing theoretical debates about immigrant incorporation in US cities, I will make the case that classical ethnic enclave or the spatial assimilation concept does not fit the spatial and social structure of Brazilian community. The conclusion of this paper is that the US new immigrant ethnic groups may transform their shapes into a new multicultural ethnic web, as a result of the actual economic and social phenomena. The new ethnic web does not discard the disappearance of classical ethnic enclave, or the spatial assimilation processes, but given the actual international and local socio-economic processes, the three types of processes could overlap or be complementary.
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Date Issued
2021
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013705
Subject Headings
Brazilian Americans--Florida--Social life and customs, Brazilians--Florida, Immigrants
Format
Document (PDF)
Brooch of Clytemnestra
Title
The Brooch of Clytemnestra.
Creator
Moorhead, Kathleen T., Florida Atlantic University, Bucak, Ayse Papatya
Abstract/Description
The Brooch of Clytemnestra follows the adventures Margaret O'Brien, age thirteen, encounters when her family returns to the United States after living in Venezuela for ten years. Set in 1963, in the fictional town of Desolasol, located on southeastern coast of Florida, the O'Brien family must cope with cultural, social and religious changes in order to adjust to life in the U.S. The story takes place over the course of one week in story present in Florida, and over the course of one year in...
Show moreThe Brooch of Clytemnestra follows the adventures Margaret O'Brien, age thirteen, encounters when her family returns to the United States after living in Venezuela for ten years. Set in 1963, in the fictional town of Desolasol, located on southeastern coast of Florida, the O'Brien family must cope with cultural, social and religious changes in order to adjust to life in the U.S. The story takes place over the course of one week in story present in Florida, and over the course of one year in story past in Venezuela. The protagonist, Meg, runs afoul of the gods, when she unwittingly incurs the wrath of Zeus, who, along with the Pantheon of Greek gods, is summering on the coast in Desolasol. Meg is a normal girl, without magical powers. However, to protect herself, and her family, she must become willing to stand up to Zeus.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13345
Subject Headings
Symbolism in literature., Florida--Social life and customs--20th century., Venezuela--Social life and customary--20th century., Mythology in literature.
Format
Document (PDF)
What remittances can't buy
Title
What remittances can't buy: the social costs of migration and transnational gossip on women in Jacaltenango, Guatemala.
Creator
Sabbagh, Jocelyn., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
The academic debate on gender and migration has missed some of the key factors that impact women's lives and communities of origin. Interviews conducted in Jacaltenango, a Mayan sending community in Guatemala, suggest that while the migration of a spouse does bring substantial financial benefits there are significant individual and social costs that result from migration. More importantly, the interviews uncovered the crucial impact of transnational gossip on women's lives, a feature that has...
Show moreThe academic debate on gender and migration has missed some of the key factors that impact women's lives and communities of origin. Interviews conducted in Jacaltenango, a Mayan sending community in Guatemala, suggest that while the migration of a spouse does bring substantial financial benefits there are significant individual and social costs that result from migration. More importantly, the interviews uncovered the crucial impact of transnational gossip on women's lives, a feature that has been absent in previous academic treatments of gender and migration. Transnational gossip has exacerbated the negative effects of migration for women in migrant-sending locations, pushing women to stay in the "private sphere" and serving as a form of social control that keeps women from actively participating in their communities. For many women, long periods of time living apart from their spouses combined with fears about transnational gossip have brought severe loneliness, anxiety, health problems and even seclusion. This phenomenon is helping define the contemporary social structures of Jacaltenango, and represents one of the most important effects of migration in terms of the lived reality of spouses and families of the predominantly male immigrants who leave Mayan communities in Guatemala to seek work in the United States.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11603
Subject Headings
Women heads of households, Guatemalans, Family, Emigration and immigration, Social life and customs
Format
Document (PDF)
Paradise Revealed
Title
Paradise Revealed.
Creator
Ditusa, Michael, Schwartz, Jason, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
South Florida is a collective of eclectic personalities who often transplant themselves from all across the country. They are often seeking a new opportunity, or running away from the baggage of their past. This collection of fiction stories seeks to explore the lives of the people who populate the area and serve the rest of the world who descend on the area annually seeking their own personal one to two week paradise. The collection sees those often living lives of quite desperation, while...
Show moreSouth Florida is a collective of eclectic personalities who often transplant themselves from all across the country. They are often seeking a new opportunity, or running away from the baggage of their past. This collection of fiction stories seeks to explore the lives of the people who populate the area and serve the rest of the world who descend on the area annually seeking their own personal one to two week paradise. The collection sees those often living lives of quite desperation, while at the same time returning to their jobs in the service industry night after night smiling. Juxtaposing the faith-based life against the backdrop of the night life, the characters are all on a journey to discover their own paradise the area offers. Sometimes they find it in small moments they experience. Sometimes they find it on the open road leaving.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000910
Subject Headings
Florida--Social life and customs--Fiction., Symbolism in literature., Self-realization., Short stories, American.
Format
Document (PDF)
Seminoles and settlers on the Florida frontier: using glass bottle analysis to reconstruct daily life at Stranahan’s trading post, Fort Lauderdale
Title
Seminoles and settlers on the Florida frontier: using glass bottle analysis to reconstruct daily life at Stranahan’s trading post, Fort Lauderdale.
Creator
Geiger, Crystal, Fradkin, Arlene, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description
The early economic and social development of Fort Lauderdale began in the late nineteenth century. Today’s well-known Stranahan House in downtown Fort Lauderdale was originally the Stranahan Trading Post and General Store, which was in operation from 1894 to 1906. Adjacent to this building was a campground, which was used by early Florida white settlers and Seminole Indians. This thesis presents a study of 204 whole glass bottles recovered from the Stranahan campground archaeological site ...
Show moreThe early economic and social development of Fort Lauderdale began in the late nineteenth century. Today’s well-known Stranahan House in downtown Fort Lauderdale was originally the Stranahan Trading Post and General Store, which was in operation from 1894 to 1906. Adjacent to this building was a campground, which was used by early Florida white settlers and Seminole Indians. This thesis presents a study of 204 whole glass bottles recovered from the Stranahan campground archaeological site (8BD259). The analysis confirms that a greater proportion of the bottles were used when the property was a campsite. Moreover, soda/mineral water, not alcohol, was the more common type of beverage consumed at the site during this time.
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Date Issued
2015
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004371, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004371
Subject Headings
Fort Lauderdale Region (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century, Frontier and pioneer life -- Florida -- Fort Lauderdale Region, Seminole Indians -- History -- 20th century, Seminole Indians -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Format
Document (PDF)
Magical Transformation or Illusion of Grandeur: The Development of Downtown West Palm Beach, 1985-2015
Title
Magical Transformation or Illusion of Grandeur: The Development of Downtown West Palm Beach, 1985-2015.
Creator
Fine, Jeffrey G., Rose, Mark H., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description
From 1985 to 2015, local politicians like Kenneth G. Spillias, Jan Winters, and Nancy M. Graham reshaped downtown West Palm Beach. They promised to eliminate urban blight, and turned a crime-ridden area of the city into an upper-middle class entertainment zone frequented by wealthy pleasure-seekers from throughout Palm Beach County. However, much of this transformation was an illusion. These politicians eliminated local taxpayers from the decision-making process by circumventing their votes,...
Show moreFrom 1985 to 2015, local politicians like Kenneth G. Spillias, Jan Winters, and Nancy M. Graham reshaped downtown West Palm Beach. They promised to eliminate urban blight, and turned a crime-ridden area of the city into an upper-middle class entertainment zone frequented by wealthy pleasure-seekers from throughout Palm Beach County. However, much of this transformation was an illusion. These politicians eliminated local taxpayers from the decision-making process by circumventing their votes, but subsequently taxed them to pay for the improvements. Furthermore, blight was not eliminated downtown, merely relocated to areas surrounding the entertainment zone. This resulted in ongoing tension between the mostly white patrons and business owners in the redeveloped area, and the primarily black residents in the dilapidated neighborhoods surrounding this development.
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Date Issued
2017
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004825, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004825
Subject Headings
Palm Beach County (Fla.)--History, Local., Palm Beach County (Fla.)--Social life and customs., West Palm Beach (Fla.)--History, Local., West Palm Beach (Fla.)--Economic conditions., West Palm Beach (Fla.)--Politics and government., Urban renewal--Florida--West Palm Beach--History.
Format
Document (PDF)