Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of two million workers, despite the large numbers of new migrant workers arriving from the countryside. As a result, wages have begun to rise, and companies are leaving the region...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...dispersed. "Our country was born in violence," he told them. "Tomorrow is the day. Every blow that you strike will be a blow for freedom." In another context, he was...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...Oxford University Press, 2011). Stimeling also complicates the usual perceptions of progressive country's anti-commercial aesthetic by disclosing the shared musical practices and networks that connected Nashville's profit-oriented country music to...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...see Countryman, Up South; Countryman, "'From Protest to Politics': Community Control and Black Independent Politics in Philadelphia, 1965–1984,"Journal of Urban History 32 (September 2006): 813–861; Delmont, The Nicest Kids in...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
Introduction Recording of "Coronation" #63 sung by Hoboken Sacred Harp Singers, led by Silas Lee, Florida Folk Festival. Courtesy of Florida Folklife Collection, State Library of Florida, May 4, 1958. Music...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...too young to see movies like Sleeper, Raging Bull, and Paper Moon when they came out watched them for free in the air-conditioned quiet of the seventh floor of the...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...and Lesbians in Cold War America (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012); Loftin, ed., Letters to ONE: Gay and Lesbian Voices from the 1950s and 1960s (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012). In one of...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...of the Settlement Process." Ethnic and Racial Studies 22 (1999): 238-266. As Maya immigrants increased in number and dispersed to new locations in the country, they began to organize on...
"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...