Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...as the Danville Bee and Danville Register, characterized SNCC's activities in Danville as detrimental to the otherwise harmonious relations between local blacks and whites. They also reinforced city officials' views...
Whiskey and Geography
...needed only equipment and grain to get started. Those who had no prior knowledge worked with neighbors and learned by doing.4Joseph Earl Dabney, Mountain Spirits, Vol. 1 (Asheville, NC: Bright...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...spiritual home on the Black side of a segregation boundary. The interstate and dome destroyed the old structure, and today, the site is now a nondescript concrete parking garage. The...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Virginia's institutions based on a discrete set of sources. Segrest's Administrations of Lunacy is a history of Georgia writ large, a weaving of scattered and disparate sources from official archives...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...during the civil rights movement. Banner from the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride website, 2003. How do we make sense of these entanglements of a South contoured by a historical black-white...
The Shenandoah Valley
...west through the gaps along the Blue Ridge. Colonial Virginia governors and officials were glad to encourage settlement in the Valley as a buffer against French and Indian claims in...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...of her neighbors put it, DDT was destroying a way of life, as it made small farms unsustainable and eroded the good health and cooperative spirit that were the backbone...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
..."to men of prominence, both inside and outside" of the state. Politicians gathered in anticipation of the official Democratic convention and, while eating opossum, pre-determined the roster of officials for...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...Mexican Americans should be included in the official history of medical exclusion in the United States" (283). Racial and ethnic prejudice and illness have combined in potent ways to justify...