Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...to multiple perspectives, these shows offered audiences something new—a desegregated news account. At the local level, some news organizations began putting together hour-long news specials on the civil rights struggle...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Rights Digital Library, University of Georgia. Newspaper is in public domain. View full newspaper. Alabama's virtually all-white electorate approved the "freedom of choice" amendments to the constitution with 61 percent...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...Woodward, "Truth Universal Discusses His New Album and Politics in Hip-hop," The Gambit, September 10, 2013, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/universal-appeal/Content?oid=2250160. Music writers label him "conscious hip-hop," but Truth's music is a lot of...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...valued at New Orleans retail prices exceeding $800.54"Narcotic Leaves Seized on Vessel," Times-Picayune (New Orleans). In December, New Orleans police and federal agents completed an undercover investigation they believed would...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...proceed apace, but also central Appalachia, where the struggle to envision and create post-coal—and potentially "post-capitalist"—futures is ongoing. In his final chapter, Stoll offers a "thought experiment" in the form...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...success of the 1911 Alonzo Bailey case that outlawed forced labor in remuneration of personal debt, political compromise between federal elected officials and southern state and local governments systematically concealed...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Giddens, Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and Contradiction in Social Analysis. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979) and The Consequences of Modernity. (Cambridge: Polity, 1990); Doreen Massey, Spatial Divisions of Labor,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...global perspective in "Beyond 'Déjà vu All Over Again?' Women's Work in the Global Economy," Journal of Women's History 19, no. 3 (October 2007), 222–31. Historical Perspectives on the Global...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...this time frame), "grew up in a reality perplexingly divided by the intermingling of an emerging mass society and a decaying industrial culture." New technologies, new familial structures, new networks...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...University Press, 2007), 210-11; Melvin Patrick Ely, Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004),...