In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...ed., Nancy Bercaw (Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2000), 161–191; Dorothy Sue Cobble, The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004);...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...party took a private train car owned by the president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Milton H. Smith, from Montgomery eighty miles south to Opp, the end of the...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of two million workers, despite the large numbers of new migrant workers arriving from the countryside. As a result, wages have begun to rise, and companies are leaving the region...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Image in the Black Mind (Oxford University Press, 2000), and coauthor of Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012). She is the Roy...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...babies), who were sold for a sum of $303,850.16Ibid., 21, 27, 28. Parents were separated from children, and betrothed from each other. Among the many wrenching stories Doesticks describes is...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...12,960 (4.4%) 297, 052 Orange County 308, 244 (26.9%) 149,457 (13%) 1,145,956 Osceola County 122,146 (45.5%) 72,986 (27.2%) 268,685 Buenaventura Lakes 18,160 (69%) 11,618 (44.5%) 26,079 In comparison to past...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Dance Music in Northern California (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008); Ryan André Brasseaux, Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-Made Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009); John Szwed,...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
..."Potatoes - F.O.B. Eastern Shore," Country Gentleman, July 5, 1919, in PE, August 2, 1919 (quotation); PE, January 19, 1929; Stevens, Soil Survey, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25; Sharrer, A...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...a virtue of their alienation."30Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994), 67, 211. Molly Worthen has mapped contemporary evangelicalism's uneasy relationship with post-modernity and religious...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...is that Faulkner gets Dilsey talking her story from his kitchen; the young schoolteacher in my book gets Miss Jane's story from Miss Jane's kitchen. And it makes a difference"...