Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...Reflections on the 'Scale Debate' in Human Geography," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, n.s., 31, no. 3 (2006): 399-406; and Edward L. Ayers and Scott Nesbit, "Seeing Emancipation:...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...1906), 391, 393. On the rise of corporations nationally, see Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007); Robert...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...film footage of roots music before the advent of television is scarce, many recent documentaries incorporate reenactments. The 2005 PBS documentary The Carter Family, for instance, reenacts early recording sessions....
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...This ratio represents the percentage of Latinos attending predominately minority schools in a single school district (X). In 1994/95, 36 of the 108 Atlanta-region public high schools (33%) were predominately...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...and those of Mississippians" (182). She employs denominational sources, notes and reports from religious meetings, letters from northern parishioners, and instances of civil rights opposition in northern cities involving white...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...to alter the attitudes of white citizens and officials or the racially discriminatory practices which they enforced. Behnken shows that in a number of instances Mexican American leaders successfully lobbied...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Freedom Struggle is the latest installment in the growing shelf of books about the Till murder and its aftermath. (Truth in reviewing: I'm at work on a book about Till...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...(44% white, 41% African American, 16% other). 2007: Fall enrollment approaches 75,000 students—23,000 white (30%), 37,000 black (50%), 15,000 others (20%); Metro Nashville's population is estimated at 615,000; the school...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...on race and the Far East generally (219). In a discursive note, he uses envelope scribblings to instantiate "Percy and his friends' affectionate and campy manner towards one another" (333,...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...its limitation: refusing to simplify either southern or Confederate literary nationalism into a unified, consistent movement or program, Hutchison thoughtfully traces its many nuances, ambivalences, instabilities, and contingencies. He untangles...