Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...decision was "based on an amendment adopted at a time when many of their forebears were disfranchised."18Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 5, 1963. "Dr. King Decides," Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 5, 1963. For...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...(unpublished manuscript, June 12, 2013), Microsoft Word file. What follows is an examination of three interconnected moments in Scott County's history. First, we discuss the conditions and struggles surrounding the...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...June 23, 2019. Video still by Steve Bransford. We used new video and audio recording technologies to capture elements of the experience of the hollow square. Our recording equipment included...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Texas, June 20, 1961. Photograph by Robert Wilner (Houston Post). Courtesy of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center and the Houston Public Library. Identifier RGD0006N-1961-5656-1. Although Levine's work gives an important...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...New York Times, March 7, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/theater/the-view-upstairs-review.html. The View UpStairs animates the real life Up Stairs Lounge gay bar environment on the eve of an arson attack on June 24,...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Sensitive to Art & Its Discontents, June 10, 2014, accessed June 30, 2014, http://hyperallergic.com/130365/how-are-they-keeping-rats-off-kara-walkers-sugar-sculptures. A few volunteers answer questions of wandering visitors but overall we are left to draw our...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Workers in Increasingly Latino-ized Occupations,” Notre Dame Law Review 80 (2004): 303; Lisa Catanzarite, “Dynamics of Segregation and Earnings in Brown-Collar Occupations," Work & Occupations 29 (2002): 300. In east...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...they estimated that another 30,000 had been privately treated. In other words, in ten years nearly 30 percent of the population of over one million had been treated for hookworm.61Ashford...