"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...fed, ill clothed, ill housed in need of agency assistance; documentation of RA/FSA accomplishments in rural rehabilitation and resettlement; [and the] exploration of social, economic, and cultural processes" in lesser-known...
Genres of Southern Literature
...Civil War the great rationale of literary production. However, if we look at nineteenth century southern literature under the headings of thematic or stylistic or plot-oriented genres that authors chose...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Show and Richard Stamz's Open the Door Richard both had brief periods of success in 1950s Chicago.24J. Fred MacDonald, Blacks and White TV: African Americans in Television Since 1948 (Chicago: Nelson-Hall,...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...preoccupation with terrorism and “illegal immigration” following the attacks of September 11, 2001. Public outcry about “illegals” stealing jobs, burdening taxpayers, and increasing crime rates led state and local officials...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Somdal. Originally published in Chicago Daily Tribune (August 24, 1945). Courtesy of Chicago Tribune Archives. Writing to Petrie from her home in Claxton, Plyler said she had read that the...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...create a makeshift truck bed at rest areas on the interstate. My father drove weekly to Texas for seven to eight years until a specialized produce distributor opened in Memphis....
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...roughly half-a-million new suburban black residents number more than two-and-a-half times that for Washington and more than four times that of Chicago.35Frey, Melting Pot Cities and Suburbs. Percent of Greater...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...(Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2011). Key is how this relates to an artistic dedication to an underclass sensibility untranslatable to the mainstream, for which New Orleans (and its microcosms) has...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...that. Anything that is manual labor that requires strength.18Danny Solomon, interview by author, tape recording, Atlanta, GA, 19 April 2005, and 22 April 2005. Grim working conditions have generally characterized...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...