Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...of migration. An estimated two million Mexican farmers and farm workers lost their livelihoods as cheap US agricultural products, especially corn, flooded Mexican markets.14Monica Campbell and Tyche Hendricks, “Mexico's Corn...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Qualitative Inquiry 19, no. 9 (2013): 712. While most of Gieseking's work is credited as "Jen Jack," this article flips those names. In visualizing both multiple individuals' and group perceptions'...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...cameras into a series of 360-degree videos.3Janko Roettgers, "Google Is Shutting Down Its Jump VR Video Program," Variety (blog), May 18, 2019, https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/google-jump-shutting-down-1203219306/. We used the Sennheiser Ambeo VR microphone...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Photograph by Flickr user J. Stephen Conn. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-2.0. Three weeks after Floyd County troops began arresting Cherokees, General Floyd informed Scott "there are now but few...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...unstable" (103). View of a WCTU parade in Tallahassee, Florida. 18--. Courtesy of State Archives of Florida. Willis deftly weaves a colorful cast of characters and groups into the narrative:...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...equation. After winning the first modern war against China in 1895, Japan shocked the international powers with its victory over a Western nation, Russia, in 1905. Meanwhile, the increasing flow...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
Introduction Scott County chicken farm, Mississippi, 2005. Photograph by Angela Stuesse. Courtesy of Angela Stuesse. It's dusk, and the putrid odor of chickens heading to and from slaughter floats through...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...decline had been caused by a combination of factors, including "the city's growth and suburban flight" as well as the "razing" of a number of houses "to prepare for expressways...