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
...Workers in El Paso, Texas, 1972–1992," Feminist Studies 22, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 425–452. ACTWU staffer Ray Rogers started a corporate campaign aimed to pressure Stevens executives through stockholders and...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Virgen de Asunción (the Virgen de Asunción is the patron saint of Guatemala) and later changed its name to Proyecto Pastoral Maya (Maya Pastoral Project) when it joined a national...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...the patio at their farm, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, January 2011. At midday we arrived at the farm of Maria Valido, Agustín Pimental, and their son Royber in Pinar del...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...that Puerto Rico's path toward progress was hindered by the "lack of vitality" of the jíbaro and an overabundance of "incapable arms" in agricultural enterprises.16Francisco del Valle Atiles, El campesino...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...beaten. The Cop (Richard E. Waits) barges in, harasses patrons, demands identification, and threatens violence until the patrons pay him off.77Vernon, The View UpStairs, 39–42. The violence began on the...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...The two "characters and careers" exist in some parallel, "meantime" relation to each other – just as in "Volume XXVI" quoted above Stein raises the question (and declines to settle...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...stories, Given Ground, earned the praise of Elizabeth Judd in the New York Times for "depicting an ignored part of the country with a clear and admiring eye." Pancake, wrote...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: The Raymond Andrews Story Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: The Raymond Andrews Story, 2010. I came to the work of Raymond Andrews in 2002, my final year...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...the novel constructs and "repairs . . . normality" as a space "not needing the police or policelike detectives."14Miller, The Novel and the Police, 3. Moreover, this pattern defines the...