Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...for Research on Women at the University of Memphis, Highlander Research and Education Center, and Southern Regional Council, 2001), http://www.memphis.edu/crow/pdfs/new_latino_south.pdf; Raymond A. Mohl, "Latinization in the Heart of Dixie: Hispanics...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
Memphis, Tennessee images
...from downtown Memphis to Mud Island River Park. FedExForum from Beale Street Shown under construction, FedExForum is home to the National Basketball Association's Memphis Grizzlies, as well as the University...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Justin Driver, "Supremacies and the Southern Manifesto," Texas Law Review 92 (2014): 1082, https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/journal_articles/4043/. These white men included die-hards, such as those found in the middle-class Citizens' Councils who usually...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...For instance, the great risks taken by workers while crossing the border are covered very briefly and illustrated with an image of a family running. In this essay we are...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...the PHS's war against VD, and although its efforts were largely unsuccessful, the clinic's history points toward a more complex understanding of this moment of "venereal peril."4The term "venereal peril"...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...23 May 2008, http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_9322048; and Jay Allen Sanford, "Drive-In Theaters in San Diego: Complete Illustrated History 1947 thru 2008," San Diego Weekly Reader, 1 August 2008, online version, http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/01/drive-in-theaters-in-san-diego-complete-illustrate/. When...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at 94 in 1982. During the 1980s, Houston endured the double impact of HIV/AIDS and the long economic fallout of the 1981 oil bust. The number of queer businesses began...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...Detail of the Savannah River basin, 2013. Map by Amber R. Ignatius, from Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region by...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
Introduction Typical spatial arrangement of the hollow square at the annual Sacred Harp singing at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, Fayette County, Alabama. Illustration by Jesse P. Karlsberg. Sacred Harp singing...