Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
Review Toby L. Parcel and Andrew J. Taylor's The End of Consensus is a thoroughly researched, multidimensional look at popular support for student assignment policies in the Wake County, North...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...was only one component of a broader mosaic. The Lomaxes went on to record hundreds of hollers, hymns, spirituals, charivari, children's songs, blues, waltzes, two-steps, jurés, laments, and other genres...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...policies designed to lead the nation toward extreme conceptions of free market capitalism and social conservatism.11Laura R. Woliver, "Abortion Conflicts, City Governments and Culture Wars: Continually Negotiating Coexistence in South...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...and fundamentalist evangelicalism inaugurated by Richard Nixon's conjuring of the "silent majority" of cultural traditionalists who opposed the advance of liberal policies and social practices in the US. This period...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...been damaged by environmental disaster, falling crop prices, worsening poverty and disease, New Deal agricultural policies, and the mechanization of cotton production. Now landowners had decided to hire day laborers...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...my already firm sense of the importance of the spiritual lives of black folk. Seeds sown in my childhood home of Jacksonville blossomed under the guidance of these teachers and...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...had grave reservations about the policies of . . . SCLC which date back to my observations of . . . the late Dr. Martin Luther King. . . ....
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...structure and led to educational policies directed at the Spanish-speakers in the newly acquired territories—policies initiated to repress Spanish and enforce linguistic assimilation. Similarly, racial assumptions determined how the Constitution...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...from the cave by Nahum Ward in 1816; pseudo-archeological narratives described long-lost civilizations of human or near-human races living deep underground; ghost stories and legends told of Indian spirits haunting...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...sustain Nixon and Reagan policies in blocking inter-district desegregation plans.122See Lassiter, The Silent Majority, 295–324. Earlier segregationists had foreseen the importance of district lines. In 1955, Forney Johnston, one of...