Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...important interviews and insight to the Morristown documentary.6The energy and new relationships that were opened up by TIRN’s founding meeting encouraged Fran to make plant closings the focus of her...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...an open-ended structure, an open call for additional contexts, commentaries, and contributions, the project can never be "finished"—even after the editorial board stops adding images. It is in those gaps...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...San Antonio, Texas, 1961. Courtesy of the Carolyn Weathers Photographs and Papers Collection, ONE Archives, USC Libraries. "Cheers" opens with the narrator describing Jane's giddy investment in absorbing and understanding...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Duany notes, there is the presence of "a large number of well-educated professionals and managers, most of whom define themselves as white in the census."31Jorge Duany, "The Orlando Ricans: Overlapping...
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...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...running in Virginia after the FCC's self-imposed moratorium on new channels for nearly three years. In April 1952 the FCC opened up channels nationwide and allotted channels for thirty-nine stations...
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...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...an area park located south of downtown Atlanta. (Clipping from the Atlanta Constitution, April 25, 1896.) Although these venues offered numerous open-air attractions, privately-owned parks were enclosed by fences and other...
The Shenandoah Valley
...a change in scope and scale. Larger and larger institutions opened business in the Valley throughout the twentieth century. DuPont, Coors, Tyson, Wampler, and Merck each have massive plants there,...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...gradual path to extinction in parts of the United States and on a more immediate one in Haiti. In the 1830s this international movement reached its apex as the British...