Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...we consider efforts to recruit Latin American migrant labor into the plants, first in the 1970s—a little-known but significant moment of transnational labor in central Mississippi—and again in the mid-1990s,...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...don't want to ally with him" (1). Thirteen years later, Reverend D. Leon Everett, the lone black member of the Houston school board, and a leader of the local chapter...
Encountering COVID
...have to lay you off because I can't go do any of these things that you are preparing." So I was laid off and I thought, "No big deal. I...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Gospel Sound and Darden's People Get Ready! extended their analyses beyond gospel's golden era. But their discussion of the genre's later years lacked the detailed attention given to the earlier...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Redd) launches into the catchy opening number, and the band "rock[s] the f*ck out."60Vernon, The View UpStairs, 9–11. The lights drop, and enters the protagonist Wes (Jeremy Pope), a gay...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...and Target, compete for their share of the market, they order books in larger and larger quantities to allow for deeper and deeper discounts. This market strategy means that it...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...and so I want to take a moment to gloss them. Both Grindr (launched 2009) and Scruff (launched 2010) exist across a spectrum of Web 2.0 geospatial gay social networking...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...Nashville, TN, September 1957. © Nashville Public Library. Until late in July, there seemed to be a general expectation around the city that Nashville's schools—and the community at large—would eventually accept...
Editorial Style Guide
...are usually used. number of international unions 8; total number of women: 79 When to spell out numbers Spell out numbers from one through one hundred and approximate numbers. It...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...in 2010, and the NOLA Hip-Hop Archive, which I founded in 2012 and is housed at the Amistad Research Center.4The NOLA Hip-Hop Archive is the first university-affiliated rap archive in...