Our Backward Revolution
...even though—among the thirty-eight advanced economies—US total federal state and local taxes as a percentage of GDP are lower than all but a handful of countries such as Turkey and...
How I Shed My Skin
...mighty black struggle and interracial coalition—there's still far to go. Honoring local achievements while warning of persistent injustice, Jim Grimsley's bold memoir of a racist white upbringing forecloses sentimentality with...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Neighborhoods facilitated slaves' social life, by demarcating arenas for courting, religious fellowship, and social solidarity. But neighborhoods also constrained social life by prescribing activities to customary places, even if the...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...whereas coal contributes to climate change and the disruption of human societies all over the world; whereas a rural policy should incorporate ecological principles with food production on a small...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...that has given solid footing to African American literature and theory, and the emergence of postcolonial, transnational, and other multicultural critical discourses — in light of these events, Eliot's dream...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...appear directly before county clerks. The local official's missive did little to shift the burden. The Bureau's regional headquarters dispatched to local field offices forms for registering freedmen and women,...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...the annual Jazz and Heritage Festival markets itself through New Orleans-based music and cultural practices, the festival frequently offers meager salaries to local artists while generously compensating national musicians. Jazz...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...(2019): 4–22. All these models of queer territory posit collective understandings of place that transcend the social boundaries of queer identity groups. All three authors also reference cruising, but offer...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...archive, https://www.actuporalhistory.org/actions/women-aids. Ruth’s trajectory reflects what scholars have argued was the complex array of personal, political, social, and spiritual motivations behind many women’s activism during the AIDS epidemic in the...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Shrines: Women's Agency in Public Sacred Space." Journal of Ritual Studies 16, no. 2 (2002), 169; also see Saba Mahmood,Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject(Princeton, NJ:...