Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...estimated in April 2006 that "there must be 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant workers in the region by now, and the number is going to grow."3Sam Quinones, "Migrants Find a Gold...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Sociology, 111(2006): 999-1037. La población maya compone aproximadamente un sesenta por ciento de la población guatemalteca de 14.000.000. Los siglos de discriminación y explotación de su tierra y su mano...
Making History
...What I know of sacrifice is the tin spoons that always fall into my dorm room radiator. Cereal:spoon. Ice milk:spoon. The world is lousy with spoons. The world is lousy...
History: The Parlor
Mid-nineteenth-century homes included a formal parlor, sometimes described by social historians as a "sacred" space, where weddings, funerals, and other public events were held. In addition, larger houses, such...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...will defeat me and my tribe. Who is he to imagine he will kill me with his songs, sacred or commonplace? Who is he to be sure that his spirits...
Talk Radio, D.C.
...fever, burning and burning. When the doctor left the house, my grandmother snuck in the back door with a croaker sack of mackerel. She wrapped me all up in that...