Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...the country and often differ markedly in character. Members concentrated their time and commitment on political causes rather than on jobs (much less careers), were downwardly mobile, lived communally, and...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...One Human Family sign, Key West, Florida, December 18, 2012. Photograph courtesy of Flickr users Ed and Eddie. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. One Human Family mosaic, Key West,...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...from Washington and New York—in most cases the only daily news source they trusted.2Mary Ann Watson, The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990),:...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...peasants were "hopelessly ignorant," with weak "bodily structures and facial expressions." The author feared that freed from the restraints of hookworm disease, and without the necessary political education to adequately...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...this documentary were an ethnically, racially, and socially diverse group with roots that begin in Louisiana's Acadiana, then range outward to northern Louisiana, Mississippi, and include students from India and...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...from Jim Crow danger on more than one occasion for her, particularly as "racially 'mixed' teams" of WPA field researchers "travelling together were virtually unheard of." For these reasons, her...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...exhibiting them. They said they weren’t going to be able to sell them, but they would exhibit them. So we did. And only two or three sold. I was eventually...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...94)—initially set it apart from Anglo-American balladry, suggesting that it was less likely to be based on real events and less likely to be diegetically unified, more recent investigation into...
Good-Bye to All That?
...of adequately funding Transylvania County's school system. They promoted these positions extensively and worked closely with the local Democratic get-out-the-vote campaign. They lost. In the weeks leading up to the...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...prejudices against prominent whites who occasionally consumed this lowly scavenger. The American persimmon tree (Diospyros virginiana)—an early invading species in disturbed areas and along forest-pasture boundaries—was common throughout the opossum's...