From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Americans or Blacks, while at the same time sympathize with them as poorer and less modern versions of themselves."61Anthony Harkins, Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon (New York:...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at 94 in 1982. During the 1980s, Houston endured the double impact of HIV/AIDS and the long economic fallout of the 1981 oil bust. The number of queer businesses began...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...experiences. The book concludes with an overview of the American Revolution's dissolution of the trade that led to revised concepts of American geography. With little or no deerskin trade, new...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...Americans and told of hardships they faced under segregation, Raymond spent as much time telling about the joys and aspirations of his characters as he did the awfulness of the...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880–1930 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000). A log train with cut, stacked timber, near Lockhart, Alabama. American Lumberman 1907,...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
Review The thirst for information and the power of lies is "a very old problem," writes Alejandra Dubcovsky, yet Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South is more than...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...burials. In the 1960s, developers sought to buy the land and disinter the remains in both burial grounds. African American activists, including the Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation (ABC), energetically resisted these plans,...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...comprised a minority of Americans, such small numbers may belie important differentials along lines of race, income-level, gender, or occupation. Experiences of illness through chemical exposure eroded Colson's and Plyler's...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...her own project on Indigenous innocence, representing Native Americans in post-conviction appeals. Our moderator this evening is Professor Megan O'Neil, who will be assisting with audience questions after the panel...