Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...number of mothers, fathers, uncles, and aunts to send children to live in the United States. The women and men who placed their children within US slaveholding households acted in ways...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...in Hot Springs in search of food and shelter. Without money, she made her way to a bus station where a police officer found her "in a very serious condition."...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...broadly conceived program. I talked with interdisciplinary faculty and, whenever possible, hired bright project personnel who were themselves scholars. I was interested in how media innovations affect the way we...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...words and gestures of the struggle, it also spread news and exposed events in a way that put pressure on business leaders in these small towns. In Danville after the...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...the ways in which capitalist development, urbanization, migration, and the expansion of state power have shaped and transformed gender, family, and race/ethnic relations. Odem's first book, Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...a safe means of exiting and entering the roadway. The location of street corner pickup sites was subject to change depending upon a number of factors including city regulations, police...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...daily transit. Most early amusement parks offered similar attractions like the Ferris Wheel, Giant Swing, Shoot-the-Chutes, or Scenic Railway. In addition, owners marketed their operations in ways that attempted to...
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...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...as normative structures giving rise to recognizability and representability: "When a picture is framed, any number of ways of commenting on or extending the picture may be at stake. But...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Guatemala. And while men still make up the majority of Maya migrants, a growing number of women and children have joined husbands, fathers, and brothers in Georgia, resulting in a...