Dirty Little Story
Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...as such, advocating too forcefully on behalf of birth control measures "might innocently start some unwelcome comment"—particularly in the South. On account of this, Wenger generally advised that the PHS...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...uncritically or positively. Long-term residents of the central Eastside often linked New Urbanism's architecture and zoning changes with potential gentrification, requiring neighborhood groups to act defensively rather than as agents...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...rich detail the emotional turmoil experienced by the grandmother-protagonist Sally. She also depicts Sally's daughter Leslie as a genuinely caring and devoted mother, though not someone who is always forthright...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...the Okefenokee region, early singing schools occasionally were held in the Primitive Baptist churches (outside formal worship), but more frequently took place in rural country schools. David Lee holds a...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...The Emancipation Car. In dialect, Foster's song depicts enslaved people crying as they mourn the death of their former owner, rendering Simpson's ironic appropriation bitingly clever. "In my selection of...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...nonracial rationale, the vast majority of the South’s private schools had become religion-based and remained nearly entirely segregated.2Ironically, the Court’s decision in Espinoza removes one of the few restrictions that...
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...
"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,...