Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...“Bill increasing tax credits for private schools defeated at end of session,” Mississippi Today, May 7, 2024, https://mississippitoday.org/2024/05/07/private-schools-tax-credits-mississippi-legislature/. Why is Mississippi currently an exception to the rush to ESAs? First,...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...research thus treats immigration as neither entirely new, nor peripheral, to experiences of race and labor in the Deep South. Rapid Hispanic growth counties. United States Department of Agriculture, Economic...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...and constructed over the airwaves an idealized aural representation of a southern Appalachian small town's culture. Rural Radio The introduction of radio into the rural United States in the 1920s...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...market, participated in Atlantic trading, and maintained long-standing shipping practices with major urban centers in the Eastern United States. They responded to the changing market conditions even before the railroad...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...begging food from door to door...or looking for food in garbage cans."47 O.C. Wenger, "United States Conducts Clinics for Venereal Diseases," Nation's Health 8 (1926): 103; McCully, "The United States...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...stories that imagined the United States as an exclusively white republic unthreatened by the linked nightmares of industrialization and racial equality. Still other writers sought to efface any trace of...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...from any legal restraints (and public disclosure).21Michael S. Kang, "After Citizens United," Indiana Law Review 44, no. 243 (2010): 243–255. Whatever their differences, these corporate-funded groups are united by two...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...(103). This multi-media interplay is a relatively new convention for academic writing. Here, old-school New Historicist methods comingle with explications of computer code and user interface to demonstrate how digital...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...note that some inconsistencies exist in Delery-Edwards's text, as well. Today, Robert W. Fieseler's Tinderbox (2018) is considered a more thorough, accurate record of the fire. The title of Delery-Edwards's...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...will become a "world-class" city with references to enhancing the dynamics of distribution, promoting a revitalized downtown, building sports arenas, expanding the zoo, redeveloping the riverfront, and promoting the city's...