Chapter Six: Motivation

1. . In 2015, this student agreed to meet me for an interview, but he didn’t show up. I tried to reschedule with him, but he never agreed, and I don’t know exactly why he left school or what happened to him afterward.

2. . I first heard this phrase from a Memphis graffiti artist named Brandon Marshall. It was a tagline for the 2011 documentary movie Miss Representation, about demeaning images of women in the media. I’m not sure where the phrase comes from originally.

3. . See my project “Blood Trade: Memphis and the Mexican Drug War,” The Commercial Appeal, June 27, 2010, and July 4, 2010.

4. . Jody Callahan, “Off the Street,” The Commercial Appeal, April 3, 2013. The information about the guilty plea and sentence comes from federal court records.

5. . Ben Sisario, “Lux Interior, 62, Singer in the Punk-Rock Era, Is Dead,” The New York Times, February 5, 2009.