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...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...American literature’s inclusion in the American literary canon and actively supported Native scholars, arguing that no one can have a competent understanding of the history, or literatures, of the Americas,...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...and Keith H. Basso, eds. (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1996), 19. I should note that in this essay and elsewhere Casey's claims are broad. He often uses...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Suárez Findlay, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999), 110–34. The second crossing demonstrates the linkages between colonial medicine...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...the American heart and soul. Hinton Rowan Helper, 1860. Engraving by A. H. Ritchie. Originally published in Hinton Rowan Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South (Burdick Brothers, 1860). Courtesy...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...to provide workers for the day labor marketplace (See Preston Quesenberry, "The Disposable Olympics Meets the City of Hype"). Labor Pools, Atlanta, 1988. Photographer: Tom Rankin Generally, African American and...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...SC, Reprint Co, 1974 [1940]). Consequently, US African American religious cultures have rarely figured as prominently as their Caribbean and South American counterparts in conversations about African cultural continuities in...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Years a Slave (Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1853). From Archive.org. 12 Years a Slave was an important American story long before Steve McQueen put it on screen, and it was...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...Carver (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011). African American hikers at Niagara Falls, ca. 1905. Photograph by Hamilton Sutton Smith. Courtesy of the Museum of African American History, Boston, Massachusetts....
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...the American Musicological Society 6, no. 1 (April 1, 1953): 46, https://doi.org/10.2307/829998. On fuging tunes, see also Karl Kroeger, American Fuging-Tunes, 1770–1820: A Descriptive Catalog (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994);...