Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...a strong "state interest." In effect, he is almost inviting the use of "fraud" on the same unproven terms as lawyers and government officials have used them in attempting to...
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
...do Bye bye little woman now, if you call that gone Better leave your things, baby, thinking all day long Better not let my good gal catch you here Ain’t...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...connections between mob violence and "legal" lynching run deeper than this slim volume conveys. While the antipathy between the NAACP and ILD infused both the Scottsboro and Peterson campaigns, the...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...More recently, the work of public health includes: chronic diseases of the heart, lungs, and kidneys; diabetes, tobacco and alcohol use; air and water quality; nutrition and obesity; gun violence; prescription drug misuse; teen pregnancy; and motor vehicle injury and...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...building. Photograph by Flickr user Larry Miller. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Scholars of Texas history will find Rough Country's data and empirical content useful in situating the religious...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...connotes originality, belonging, and rootedness. In drawing together diaspora and indigeneity to compass the complexities and ambiguities of indigenous peoples' lives, scholars of indigenous diasporas have closed the gap between...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...heavily populated by African Americans. Tretter’s use of University of Texas archival documents is effective here; he demonstrates the racist and often contradictory logic used by University of Texas administrators...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...various states of collapse around the vicinity of the house: a stable, the Hill house, the water tower, the milking shed, and the big barn. All of these elements figured...
Finding Media
...film, and many—though not all—are digitized and available for public use. Creative Commons: Creative Commons allows users to license their own work for public use as an alternative to ordinary...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...LICKER OF THE WHIP HAND, THE 'HOUSE NIGGER' . . . THE RACISTS' DARLING," "THE ARCH REACTIONARY," and "THE 24-KARAT BITCH." The latter insult Kennedy attributes to Alan Lomax, quoting...