Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
.... . In other places, such behavior quickly elicits harsh sanctions."7Levine, "Gay Ghetto," 204. By contrast, Gieseking and Ghaziani attend more closely to a multiplicity of perspectives, change over time,...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...several large southern cities, including Atlanta, New Orleans, and Houston, as well as Memphis, Miami, and Virginia Beach. The passage of "Dirty South" from the specific context in which it...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...Richmond, Virginia, 1925. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. “The Land We Live In” begins with Virginian icons John Smith and Pocahontas, creating a presence for Native Americans whose movements...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
In Search of Justice Mother Jones once said, "There is no peace in West Virginia, because there is no justice [in West Virginia]." This is as true today as when...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...el pueblo de Santa Eulalia. La investigación incluye entrevistas, observación participativa e investigación archivística en Georgia y en Guatemala. Santa Eulalia es la Santa Patrona de un pueblo del mismo...
The Shenandoah Valley
...and scattered the Confederate forces. In the campaign one main objective was the Virginia Central Railroad which linked Staunton in the Upper Valley with eastern Virginia through Rockfish Gap. The...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food & Globalization, ed. Deborah Barndt (Toronto: Sumach Press, 1999), 141-160; Fran Ansley and Susan Williams, “Southern Women and Southern Borders on the Move: Tennessee Workers...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
Introduction Virginia Ward's yearbook photo, Pebblebrook High School, 1970. Virginia Ward is not a small woman, but the fineness of her hands and the way her gray curls sweep around...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...the white."5Susan Reverby, Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 136. From 1932 to 1972 white PHS doctors attempted to...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...not The Loving Story; it is Loving. Welcome to Virginia: Virginia is for Lovers. Road sign near rest stop, Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 2016. Photograph by Eric Solomon. Courtesy of Eric...