Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...for "public interest" programming at license renewal, national networks and local affiliates began to take their news organizations more seriously.59MacDonald, Blacks and White TV, 90-2. Programs included for example, "Clinton...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...black families and middle class black families. Mary Pattillo-McCoy, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 20. So while middle-class...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...compete for the "Golden Chicken" trophy.4Chris Allen Baker, "Battle for Golden Chicken Enters Its 80th Year," Scott County Times, October 21, 2009, accessed November 6, 2013, http://www.sctonline.net/news/article_2e8efddf-5c83-5935-9ea3-eac434b9b7cf.html. Typical for poultry-producing...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839β1869
...black labor "indispensible" to the nation. This use of Bishop as symbol complicates any celebration of the cave guides as figures of black agency and autonomy, opening up a more...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...but their numbers were greatly reduced. In black-majority Northampton County only about a quarter of adult black males managed to hurdle the "understanding clause" and register. When an aspiring black...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997β2007
...of the earliest formations of a black popular music culture."6Kyra D. Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop. (New York: New York University Press,...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...is never dissolved. Black ancestry, however distant or minimal, permanently identifies its descendants as Black. The immutability of Black racial identity is at the core of racism. White supremacy depends...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...characters and readers of the novel. How can American Indians, very much including American Indian writers and the enterprises of American Indian literature and criticism, repossess dispossessed southeastern homelands and...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Officialβs Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...net decrease of black population, but instead suggested the large-scale black migration to the North and West. Yoshio Koya, A map of the "Black Belt" around the Mississippi River basin...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...that was supposed to protect and negotiate with Indians. Between 1805 and 1827, the state held five lotteries to give away land that had belonged to the Muscogee Creek Indians....