Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...agreement and unions are required to represent all workers equally, often only a fraction of these workers are dues-paying members. As a result, unions in "Right to Work" states typically...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...largely on biographer Catherine Fosl’s book, Subversive Southerner (2006), Southern Patriot is narrated principally by Braden. Fosl makes multiple appearances, recounting in a riveting statement early on that throughout Braden's...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Delhi. Then, nearly as suddenly, the cause dropped from view, displaced by a war to extend democratic rights the Scottsboro nine did not enjoy. The nine young men falsely accused...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...(1997). Currently, she is working on multiple projects about racial violence, trauma, and cultural memory situated in the period of the civil rights movement. Dr. Gwin also writes creative nonfiction,...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...seems relatively trouble-free as nearly as I can tell from my somewhat aloof perch (I don't patronize bars or attend parties or socialize much). A newly opened bar a few...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...and film versions of Winter’s Bone. In the earlier novel various members of the Dolly family also appear as characters, but there they conform fairly closely to comic stereotype, as...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...critical attention to occupational safety and health. Originally and essentially, however, the black lung movement was a struggle over the recognition and, more implicitly, causation of an occupational disease. What...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...century. He began with a family tree project that quickly became a collection of family photos, which began to amass heirlooms, furniture, machinery, and local publications dating back to the...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...of Cuba—the region which this book focuses on—many were only partially free. They had paid a portion of the price for their manumission while continuing to do some work for...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Bailey has inserted into the American mind, through the channels of the gallery and the museum, indelible images of African American memory. The signature is immediately recognizable. Memory as Medicine—curated...