Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...distribution and have generated wealth. But the consequences of those decisions, and others, especially those connected with "selling" Memphis by offering typically southern industrial recruitment incentives, marketing cheap land and...
Brushes with War
...Winslow Homer. Courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art, 1992.41. Near Andersonville, 1866. Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Courtesy of the Newark Musem, 66.354. Prisoners from the Front, 1866....
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...the white."5Susan Reverby, Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 136. From 1932 to 1972 white PHS doctors attempted to...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
Interview with Sandra Beasley Part 2: Jake Adam York & Sandra Beasley discuss traveling and engaging with the “culinary South,” “traditional” cuisine, and more Part 3: Jake Adam York & Sandra Beasley...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...represented by Margaret Sanger’s activism. In the 1920s and 1930s, however, medical professionals, eugenicists, and other birth control advocates—including Sanger—sought to establish birth control as a legitimate medical issue. Clarence...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
.... . In other places, such behavior quickly elicits harsh sanctions."7Levine, "Gay Ghetto," 204. By contrast, Gieseking and Ghaziani attend more closely to a multiplicity of perspectives, change over time,...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food & Globalization, ed. Deborah Barndt (Toronto: Sumach Press, 1999), 141-160; Fran Ansley and Susan Williams, “Southern Women and Southern Borders on the Move: Tennessee Workers...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...of our time."10John Kirtley, "Facing a Harsh Truth When Fighting for a Bipartisan Cause," RedefinED, May 20, 2011, https://www.redefinedonline.org/2011/05/facing-a-harsh-truth-when-fighting-for-a-bipartisan-cause/; Katie Nielsen, "How School Choice Helps Advance Martin Luther King's Legacy,"...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...1845, National Archives. Profiting financially from the expulsion of Cherokees, Floyd County citizens sanctioned Georgia's policies. A few days before the treaty deadline, post commanders estimated the number of Cherokees...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...