Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...district—would ultimately fade as public officials, business leaders, and area residents "generally supported the board's policies" and approved the schools' performance through the 1980s and into 1990s (22). However, as...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...eliminated sex discrimination because of the fact that in the subordinate position of women, we cut across all racial, class, social, economic lines and . . . so vast a...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...a mob killed two African Americans in Wyandotte, remarking that "when lynching does become necessary in Kansas, we should prefer some other class than the conservatives of Kansas City, and...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...body of antebellum writing, often collected into books from magazine sketches and easily recognizable through the presence of familiar generic conventions: the clash of upper and lower-class, backwoods characters; heavy...
The Place of Appalachia
...recognized this reality. Rick Simon, for example, employing a Marxist framework, asserted that Appalachia represented a spatialized manifestation of class exploitation.1Richard M. Simon, "Regions and Social Relations: A Research Note,"...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...the class struggle only to have to sign a statement that I was not part of the class struggle —a tip off that the class struggle was still raging! The...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...and class relations — Prop Master is an example of a challenge. Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan, Page and Logan (far left) talk with museum visitors on Prop Master's...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...no place. "Mississippi has two cities," said Faulkner, "Memphis and New Orleans." Upriver, the Vienna of the Delta is Clarksdale. We looked for easy sevenths and found a covered wagon...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...by Emma Lirette. Sakakeeny charts how projects such as the construction of Interstate 10 through the central business corridor of the Tremé, and the demolition of multiple blocks to build...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...also the name of the horse in Lawrence Walker's classic waltz "Chère Alice" (pers. comm., February 2011). Lunéda Comeaux Top, Portrait of Lunéda Commeaux of New Iberia, Louisiana, 1934. Detail...