Mississippi Delta
...violence, especially lynching, and virtual powerlessness in the criminal justice system. Coupled with inferior educational institutions and poor health facilities, these social problems led African Americans increasingly to head out...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...parade, McClellanville, South Carolina, 2010. Low Country African American social life remains centered around churches and there is a strong spiritual camaraderie between car club members. As prescribed in the...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of British Geographers, n.s., 7, no. 1 (1982): 15-34; Neil Smith, Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1984); Sallie A. Marston, "The Social Construction...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...peer from below and behind the scaffold, including through a courthouse window where, in one case, the camera's flash caused a man's eyes to emit a spectral glow. Hudson calls...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...or ignored the Depression and portrayed the country, as Hoover himself did, in business-as-usual terms," notes cultural historian Morris Dickstein. "This virtual blackout of bad news gave impetus to the...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...account offers insight into white experience of racial intimacy in San Antonio, while also alluding to potential Mexican American identification with whiteness as produced by San Antonio's colonial and military...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Journal of International and Comparative Law, 22 (1992): 388-392. Parts of their oral testimony are also captured in From the Mountains to the Maquiladoras. She said to Fran, “I feel...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...building served as a general medical-surgical hospital until it was closed in 1979. It contained operating rooms, wards for medical and surgical cases, a clinical laboratory, an x-ray department, an...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...South, but another social institution developed to carry Sacred Harp music forward — the singing convention. Conventions would last several days and bring together the faithful, many traveling several days...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...produces ecological disasters as well as economic, political, and social inequalities.3Ann Pettifor, The Case for the Green New Deal (London: Verso, 2019). The American version of the Green New Deal...