New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...phenomenon associated with gateway cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and New York has morphed into a national trend. In the South, Latino men and women from across the United...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...more vulnerable, more likely to be torn apart through forced removal. A marriage at the mercy of two slave owners meant twice the number of men with the opportunity of...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...and cultural life. The term “primitive” refers to members' desire to follow the ways of the original or “primitive” Christian church. Clusters of like-minded Primitive churches band together in associations,...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...sense of community, among like-minded people, which explains in large measure our appreciation for gatherings like this one. Most people forget that "I know it when I see it," 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,...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...those of the bar, scholars have neither discovered organized political activity associated with or inspired by organizations like the Daughters of Bilitis or the Mattachine Society in San Antonio, nor...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...other common names like "reefer" and "muggles." For consistency, I use "marijuana" throughout, unless directly quoting from sources with varied spellings. Dowling and Parker's letters marked the early stages of...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...talk about the changes to the levee system using terms like "cost-benefit analysis."29John Schwartz and Campbell Robertson, "New Orleans Levees Hold, and Outsiders Want In," New York Times, September 6,...
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
...committees, and some state governments, the numbers of functioning labor temples and union halls has fallen across the United States, making projects like WRP and CAFÉ all the more valuable...