A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...first book contributes immensely to US southern, economic, gender, and political history. Examining the experiences of black female convicts in Georgia between emancipation and the 1920s, No Mercy Here enriches...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...connections between mob violence and "legal" lynching run deeper than this slim volume conveys. While the antipathy between the NAACP and ILD infused both the Scottsboro and Peterson campaigns, the...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...course, the Devil himself. It is often experienced as both cause and effect, action and reaction, and it can be used as both hex and counterhex, poison and antidote, pain...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Meeting typically included a Sacred Harp sing on Saturday evening. This network of churches, then, disseminated and maintained the Crawfordite style of hymnody and fostered the symbiotic relationship between the...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...http://www.cathymeder.com/Nav.aspx/Page=%2fPageManager%2fDefault.aspx%2fPageID%3d1557869 (accessed February 20, 2007). One entrance to this "community" is located adjacent to the road on which Sweet Apple sits, about a hundred yards from the cabin's mailbox. But...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Spotify app. For a full list of the songs George Mitchell recorded in the Lower Chattahoochee region between 1969 and 1982, consult the artist repertoire index, which organizes the songs...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...leadership to the integration of existing white institutions which were reputedly better staffed and resourced. But some black community members, teachers and students remember that the interdependence and familial care...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...both in Folder "Tenant Farming, 1939-1944," Box 1, Official File 1650, FDR. Arthur Rothstein, State highway officials moving evicted sharecroppers away from roadside to area between the levee and the...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...alphabet agencies, brought forth the American Guide Series. Its roughly 400 volumes encompassed every state as well as the territories of Alaska and Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia....
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...the unfettered private market is better positioned to address social inequality, it has not necessarily lessened the government's financier role. Instead, public tax dollars subsidize private sector urban redevelopment efforts....