Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...context, the growth of advanced producer services benefited only certain segments of the labor force, while increasing numbers joined the contingent workforce. Handsomely compensated financiers, technocrats, entrepreneurs, and other mid-to-upper-level...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...of my contacts, serves as a guide to the continuity of self-sufficient traditions in the Ozarks. The research foundation for this essay consists of archival data collected in and about...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...of the Great Depression—just as the PHS dismantled a number of pilot projects designed to provide mass treatment to syphilitic blacks. Although many of the initiatives undertaken in Hot Springs...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...of slavery" (5). Planters utilized the ideology of US uniqueness to attack anyone who attempted to interfere with slavery by accusing abolitionists of being dupes of the scheming British. The...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...store-community relationship was reciprocal and dialectical, with each entity both supporting and being supported by the other. "Little Five Points Was Just Crawling with Lesbians" Atlanta's 1970s lesbian-feminist community was...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...to immigration.5See, for example, Barbara Ellen Smith and Jamie Winders, “‘We’re Here to Stay’: Economic Restructuring, Latino Migration, and Place-Making in the U.S. South,” Transactions of the Institute of British...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...late sixties, Brenda supported herself primarily through heading substance abuse centers and animal shelters, while Carolyn worked as a librarian for the Los Angeles Public Library. From the time Brenda...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...European-American descent, mixed with some (often unacknowledged) American Indian ancestry. “As early as the 1760s, their forebears started moving into the southern colonies, over the objections of the British loyalists....