Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...for Research on Women at the University of Memphis, Highlander Research and Education Center, and Southern Regional Council, 2001), http://www.memphis.edu/crow/pdfs/new_latino_south.pdf; Raymond A. Mohl, "Latinization in the Heart of Dixie: Hispanics...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Elvis Presley. Courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. The book is organized around chapters devoted to individual genres, and often a single recording artist. Comentale begins by chronicling the Mississippi Delta's industrialization...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...Coast, 146. By taking advantage of the area's positioning with regard to the New York-centered rap industry, a small number of talented producers and artists found shortcuts to pop stardom,...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...Center. And Arturo Alfonso Schomburg's Collection at the New York Public Library has evolved into the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This presentation will focus on the Schomburg...
Religion and the US South
...Pew Research Center. All reports courtesy of The Pew Research Center. Religion continues to define the US South as a distinctive part of the United States. It contributes to defining...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...There are no algorithms to match users: instead, Grindr participants initiate contact with (or reject) each other based on one profile photo, about 50 words of text, some drop-down menus,...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...As rising tension elevated the potential for violence, numbers increasingly favored the Georgians. Fewer than nine thousand Cherokees lived on land sought by nearly 220,000 Georgians and awarded to 54,500...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...archives at colleges and universities, museums, historical societies, research centers, in pieces that place digital content curation at the narrative center. I also hope Southern Spaces continues to make plans...
Bodies and Souls
...The Mississippi Delta is at the epicenter of these trends, and Jonestown is located in the heart of the Delta. Between the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers, this town of 1,600...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Atlanta, Georgia, attending seminars at the Communicable Disease Center (CDC, now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the US Public Health Service.56The CDC was originally founded in 1942...