Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...electric knives, and electric ice crushers.21"Sunbeam Clocks Made in Forest." A BAWI bond of nearly one million dollars facilitated construction of a state-of-the-art, air-conditioned Sunbeam factory, which provided jobs to...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...a concentrated Hispanic population without revealing their identity and being labeled racist or politically incorrect. Online conversations reveal thoughts and feelings surrounding everyday encounters with "the other" that are usually...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...which culminated in the American Patchwork documentary Cajun Country: Lache pas la patate.36Ancelet, "Lomax in Louisiana." Cajun Country aired on PBS in 1990, bringing the intervention Lomax began in 1934 full...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...an Understanding of Seeker Services as a New Kind of Liturgy," Worship 70, no. 5 [September, 1996]: 386–405). This model "avoided conventional church approaches, using . . . Sunday services...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...M. Loftin ed., Letters to ONE: Gay and Lesbian Voices from the 1950s and 1960s (New York: SUNY Press, 2012), 114–5. To his credit, Loftin preserves the privacy of these...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...birth control and found it unnecessary to provide any services to African Americans. White professionals who sponsored birth control services for blacks repeatedly changed their minds and terminated financial support...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...origin amongst Lowcountry Africans—shared similar understandings of the spiritual dimensions of the natural world. Information about the Kongo simbi, and similar nature spirits, anchor Brown's analysis of Lowcountry beliefs and...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
Introduction This multimedia essay complements the 2007 Appalshop film Morristown: in the air and sun. Written by independent filmmaker Anne Lewis, the director of Morristown, and Fran Ansley, a Tennessee...