Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Wine Drinking ceremony. The services last until midnight and then recess. Usually the church members go to one of the camp house kitchens for coffee and to visit. Services are...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Lewis secured Pepsi Cola, which sponsored Teenage Frolics as part of the "special markets" campaign to increase sales of the beverage among African Americans.37On Pepsi marketing to black customers, see...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...labor positions in the early to mid-1980s. Following the arrival of Latinos beginning in the late 1980s, by 2000 Latinos outnumbered African Americans at catch-out corners, but African American men...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
..."Anemia Dispensary Service," a sub-bureau of the Department of Health, Charities, and Corrections, with Gutiérrez Igaravídez retained as its director. During the next two years, the dispensary service increased the...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...The Opossum and American Foodways" (Washington DC: Library of Congress, August 15, 2019), https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2019/08/a-possum-crisp-and-brown-the-opossum-and-american-foodways/. Laborers employed by wealthy Cajun farmer Joseph La Blanc holding an opossum and birds they shot...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...states’ rights, federal authority, and the place of non-Americans in American society. The military records highlight the failure of Congress to provide adequate funds for an enormous and unnecessary military...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...city's neighborhoods, with concentrations in Wheatville and Clarksville,30Clarksville, the first colony of free African Americans in Texas, remained unincorporated by the City of Austin and almost entirely African American well...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...American Community Survey, 2003. In public education, the Memphis city schools report a high school graduation rate of 48.5 percent, one of the worst in the United States. Ranked fortieth...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...these American looms ended up there. Conquered by the Mongols in the eighth century and by Russia in the nineteenth, Uzbekistan became part of the Soviet Union in 1924 and...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...how the plantation household—and the racialized kinship structures that underpin it—increasingly came to shape human life for American Indians, African Americans, and Euro-Americans after the emergence of the United States....