Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...of a Sunbelt City that “everywhere you look, cities big and small are trying to get in touch with their inner Austin" (2). Yet as Tretter forcefully argues, the sunny portrayals...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
Introduction Recording of "Coronation" #63 sung by Hoboken Sacred Harp Singers, led by Silas Lee, Florida Folk Festival. Courtesy of Florida Folklife Collection, State Library of Florida, May 4, 1958. Music...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
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
...union's Stevens campaign. Sutton toured the country as "the real Norma Rae" in support of the boycott of Stevens's products, always stressing that there were many Norma Raes. A scene...
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
...Native American tribes burned large sections of it annually and settled in villages along its many streams and rivers. In the eighteenth century the Valley was the backcountry frontier of...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...real happy land for us outlaws,’ he recalled. ‘But for us reformed sons of bitches no country ain’t no great sight better than no other country . . . But...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...that racial thinking was fundamentally entwined with manumission as a process. The state itself had allowed for some malleability of official color taxonomies prudentially. Somewhat privileged people of African descent,...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...negotiated complex and changing structures of racial discrimination, segregation, and exclusion in the Jim Crow and Sun Belt souths. The Land Was Ours explores the inner workings of black communities...