"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...serve the propagandist aims of the Historical Section through images that "provide highly mediated insights into the lived experiences of the underclass and, necessarily, encourage intuitive or counterfactual readings." This...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...class. He is the author of Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (2004), which won the American Culture Association's John G. Cawelti Book Prize. Wiese...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...young activists struggled to be treated as first-class citizens, The Mitch Thomas Show, Teenage Frolics, and Teenarama emphasized that black youth were worthy of being first-class consumers and teenagers.72On the...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...aimed for an audience of scholars and teachers, students in and out of classrooms, writers and media producers, and the general public. We wanted to distinguish Southern Spaces from strictly...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...1940s, Gainey grew up poor and gay in rural South Carolina and attended Clemson University, where he studied ornamental horticulture. Using vernacular plants in classical garden design, he became a...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
Public Health Crossings Top, Colonel Bailey K. Ashford, ca. 1893. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, William H. Hunt, Governor of Puerto Rico, 1901–1904. Courtesy of...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...marginalized groups include not only land struggles by formerly enslaved people and by Native Americans, but also agricultural movements and the class-based mobilizations of populist agrarians. Chicano farmworker fights against...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...rights movement, careers in social work and business, and her experiences as a wife, mother, and grandmother. A native of High Point, North Carolina, Magee lived most of her adult...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...on Fridays, our name would be called and we would go into the only privacy there was, the cloakroom at the back of the classroom, and there in the narrow...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...other reasons, too. A few free Black people could even conduct business at the establishments there, but almost every business owner in the town held a few people in bondage. James...