Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
Introduction The city of Atlanta has a reputation of promise and opportunity in the American ummah (the Islamic brotherhood and sisterhood), particularly for African American Muslims. Indeed, many leave cities...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...labor positions in the early to mid-1980s. Following the arrival of Latinos beginning in the late 1980s, by 2000 Latinos outnumbered African Americans at catch-out corners, but African American men...
Genres of Southern Literature
...of women's and African American literature. Considering African American and southern women's literary history apart from that of white or white male writers has been responsible for sometimes meaningful, but...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...in operation. Animation by Steve Bransford and Brian Riedel, 2020. Dataset by Brian Riedel, 2015. ArcGIS map by Stephanie Bryan and Brian Riedel, 2020. That animation suggests several phases to...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...characters and readers of the novel. How can American Indians, very much including American Indian writers and the enterprises of American Indian literature and criticism, repossess dispossessed southeastern homelands and...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...health.84Between 1922 and 1932, the number of African American visitors listed in the "unskilled labor" category was "nearly twice as high" as the comparable figure for whites. O.C. Wenger, "An...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...are with us, we will feed you; if not, we will kill you.” According to the investigations of two human rights commissions, the vast majority of human rights abuses—torture, assassinations,...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014), 230. Political organizations such as the...
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
...Rise Gonna Rise, 130–131, 148, 154–155. ACTWU allies included politicians, such as US senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan; organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Institute for Southern...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...a jazz banjo player from New Orleans named Don Vappie as an ultimate, socially adaptable, yet culturally grounded American—was a PBS film called American Creole.26American Creole: New Orleans Reunion, DVD,...