Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...immigration. In 1991, when the earliest footage was shot, most east Tennessee residents were not aware of the growing numbers of Latino immigrants. But some of the women on the...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...state in 1970, now ranks as the ninth most populous.12"State of Metropolitan America," Brookings Institution, http://www.brookings.edu/about/programs/metro/stateofmetroamerica; US Department of Congress, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, "1990 Census...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
..."Mexican Hypothesis" or the "Mexican Vector model," this is the most prominent interpretation for marijuana prohibition in the United States. For more on these terms, see Himmelstein, The Strange Career...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...or fourth whitest state in the country.14According to the latest United States Census estimates, West Virginia is the fourth-whitest state in the Union. ANN: West Virginia is very white, but...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...he acquired the theater in 1987.29Anne Krishnan, "Movies Under the Stars; Starlite Drive-In remains Durham institution," Herald-Sun [Durham, NC], 10 July 2004, A1. The last Durham-area drive-in still standing, the...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...to the press, including, most importantly, a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. On January 7, Whitfield and 350 core followers gathered at the Sikeston First Baptist Church to hold...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...of cruising traffic Martinson's "roaming" describes. The "Vice-Versa" also underscores how unlikely it was that customers came to the store just to browse. Presumably, most would browse the movies and...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...the Greenbrier to greet protestors and shake hands with them. Most of them were students at Marshall University and West Virginia State College. Wallace meanwhile scoffed that "they're just practicing...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...planters attempted to deny them. In their best moments, these essays transition into something resembling historical ethnography. White's contribution brings us into the underground economy of Louisiana's slaves who pieced...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...port cities. Instead, it was a sluggish disease endemic in the island's mountainous interior. Whereas in Cuba most yellow fever victims were nonimmune Spanish immigrants, in Puerto Rico most hookworm...