From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...sources include celebrity interviews of performers, DVD bonus features, album covers, and online press coverage. From these materials emerge patterns of description, allusive gestures, cultural maneuvers, and possibilities for self-concept...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...in the South," South Today, October 1969, 1. By the 1970s, as many public schools in the South were being desegregated for the first time, promoters of private schools were...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...illness that mercilessly depopulates our fertile landscape."57Mariano Ramirez, José Carbonell, Pedro del Valle, and González Martínez to Bailey K. Ashford, July 19, 1905, CA, box 5. For league members, the...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
Introduction Mary E. Frederickson, Tending an early twentieth century Draper loom made in Massachusetts for use in mills across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama, Margilan, Uzbekistan, 2006. I heard the...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...of the Atlanta painting, and promoters moved each canvas from city to city for exhibition. At every stop, riggers installed the panorama in a massive rotunda building, a specially designed...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...River and marked the western boundary of Georgia. Eyeing the landscape, Hargrove exclaimed, "This would make a splendid site for a town!" An approaching stranger, Major Philip Walker Hemphill, overheard...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...Historic Filipino Town. The maps illustrate the stories of one immigrant community by depicting the economic injustices that accompany transitions in a landscape where entertainment complexes and highways fracture neighborhoods...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...whom employment, housing, and other basic needs depended upon privacy. For them, media silence was more than a welcome salve; it was necessary for survival. This ethical complexity between historical...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...measurable effect on the minds of Americans remains for debate, but it did change the landscape of segregation at the local level in many places across the South, inaugurating a...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...moved to escape union contracts, to minimize their duties under state regulation, and to profit from the incentive programs that have always accompanied industrial recruitment in various versions of the...