Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...or women from non-middle-class backgrounds. However, as Faderman notes with regard to young lesbians of this period who had been born into poor or working-class families, "the democratization of higher...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...in the case of fried chicken in her chapter "More Than Just the 'Big Piece of Chicken': The Power of Race, Class and Food in American Consciousness," in Food and...
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
...working-class women embraced (or even tolerated) the principles and values of women's liberation should not be exaggerated. Brody recalls white working-class women punishing her through gossip and shunning for wearing...
Genres of Southern Literature
...1856. Map created by William C. Reynolds and J.C. Jones. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, www.loc.gov/resource/g3701e.ct000604/. The quest to classify the literature has continued unabated for...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...offers insights into racial, gendered, and class-based aspects of the federal government's campaign against syphilis and gonorrhea. The clinic treated all manner of patients—black as well as white, male as...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...out the working class segments of each racial group, and we suspect the situation of white working class people is more effectively obscured in these statistics, since they are likely...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...in Black enterprise in Atlanta. His business anchored the Auburn Avenue district, which in its heyday in the 1920s was considered the most significant Black business district in the country....
Bodies and Souls
...The Mississippi Delta is at the epicenter of these trends, and Jonestown is located in the heart of the Delta. Between the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers, this town of 1,600...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...by Luther "Luke Skyywalker" Campbell, who made impressive strides in establishing the business infrastructure to support the genre and providing a platform for its creative development. At its peak, Campbell's...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...to have working class backgrounds than to be identified as Cajun. His protagonists are predominantly white, blue-collar, south Louisiana men, their ages ranging from the twenty-somethings of his novels to...