Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...and in Nova Scotia (at 5415 Portland Place in Halifax); Prairie Style was finished at 3431 Wilson Avenue, in Oakland, California.23Giscombe, Prarie Style, xiii. Yet, for all this geographic precision,...
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
...workers when their "womanly troubles" required more frequent visits; how the company passed them over for promotions and raises because of their sex or race or both. Lucy Taylor's husband...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...who was working for Fortune in the fall of 1932 and who knew, for example, of Marxist intellectual James Rorty's travels in the South for Where Life is Better: An...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...The "slave market" became the focal point for the 1964 St. Augustine Movement—a clash between nonviolent protestors and segregationists—prior to President Lyndon Johnson's signing the Civil Rights Act.2Dan R. Warren,...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...confidante, Betty Hester, compels their readers to revisit Andalusia and consider the ways in which, while circumscribing the locus of much of the author's life, it also provided a point...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...hundred acres of commercial development, six thousand single family residences, six thousand multi-family dwellings, park sites, church and school sites, a country club, swimming pool, tennis courts, an executive golf...
How I Shed My Skin
...as teaching the worst lessons. There, racist discourse flowed between adults, between Sunday School and worship services, as well as mid-week meetings, at both the Baptist and Methodist churches he...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...demeanor of Parks's subjects belies the injustice of the "separate but unequal"1Charlayne Hunter-Gault, "Doing the Best We Could with What We Had," in Gordon Parks: Segregation Story (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl,...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...the gothic and against which it responded" (133). Similarly, in his extended analysis of the nineteenth-century American gothic Justin Edwards "locate[s] racial ambiguity in the foreground of gothic expression" (xix)....