Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...sixteen-block area described by Van Allen. —what then functioned as queer "territory" was out on the street in that sixteen-block rectangle. According to a man Van Allen calls Dan: "Of...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...birth control. Background Earl S. Parker, Map of the "Oriental" population of California in "The Real Yellow Peril," The Independent 105 (May 7, 1921): 476. Marshall De Motte,...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...member who kept artifacts of his family's poultry business. The most valuable archival sources we located were the subject files and scrapbooks compiled by local public librarians in Forest and...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...and in interior sections of California. The percentage of new legal and illegal Mexicans arriving in California dropped ten percentage points during the 1990s, from an all-time high of fifty-seven...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...River Valley Edition, 23 May 2002, NRV3; Donna Alvis-Banks, "Still the Good Old Days—and Nights—at the Starlite," Roanoke Times, New River Valley Edition, 4 September 1994, NRV16. Dot met her...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...and Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. He is also the Director of the Concordia Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC). He...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...is 27th in the total number of resident Hispanics, and 37th in the percentage of its overall population that Hispanics now represent.) Observers have offered various reasons for why many...
California Creek, North Carolina
NCDOT boundary marker, California Creek, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drill rig, California Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist Jody Kuhne identifying springs in...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...men and youth make up the vast majority of this migration, but the number of women and children migrants has increased steadily since 1990.14Smith, “Guatemala: Economic Migrants Replace Political Refugees.”...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...of Kansas, 1996). Manganiello challenges modernization narratives in southern history through his analysis of private electric companies. As he notes, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has long overshadowed these companies,...