Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...in Appalachia (New York: New Press, 2004). Union contracts eroded along with wages and benefits. Social relationships changed. Workers were thrown into competition with other workers, often of different race...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...that some sought escape via "life in a big city . . . Someplace like San Francisco. Or New York. Or New Orleans."13Delery-Edwards, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson, 10. However,...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...of its rambling complexity. There are a number of reasons why this project is important. To begin with, the musical traditions of southern Louisiana, outside of New Orleans, remain only...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...E. Staub, Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (London and New...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...of Sharecroppers in the New Deal (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965); and Donald Holley, Uncle Sam's Farmers: The New Deal Communities in the Lower Mississippi Valley (Urbana: University of...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...and the Mainsprings of American Politics (New York: New Press, 1997); Jeffrey S. Lowe and Todd C. Shaw, "After Katrina: Racial Regimes and Human Development Barriers in the Gulf Coast...
Religion and the US South
...of new Presbyterian and Baptist congregations, as well as a new presence of Quakers, Lutherans, German Reformed Methodists, and pietistic Protestant sects. All of these new religious influences appealed to...
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
...when she said, "This is just wonderful. It's like a whole new life."11Medlin quoted in Minchin, Don't Sleep with Stevens!, 170. On verdicts in class-action discrimination lawsuits, see MacLean, Freedom...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Countryside: New frontiers in Rural Queer Studies (New York: NYU Press, 2016). In a note of gratitude, more people than I can name here contributed in meaningful ways to this...