Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...southern Louisiana. This rendering, as noted in the Introduction, overlooks complexities of ethnicity and race that characterize the region. Finally the stance taken by these videos aligns with Flaherty in...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...1963 local civil rights leaders Rev. Lawrence Campbell and Rev. Alexander Isaiah Dunlap led their congregations and students to City Hall demanding equality in hiring practices in city government. They...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
..."Shirley Caesar: A Woman of Words" (PhD diss., Ohio State University, 1992); Birgitta J. Johnson, "Back to the Heart of Worship: Praise and Worship Music in a Los Angeles African-American...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...consider the fact that The Los Angeles Review of Books has run not one, but two interviews with Franco, as well as a review, in the last six months about...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. Her areas of specialization within the field of US history include women and gender, family, migration, and ethnicity. Her research has focused on...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...small town of Woodstock. However, although Woodstock is only about thirty miles equidistant from the metropolitan centers of both Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama's largest city, the podcast deceptively portrays the...
Deep Ellum Blues
Introduction The railroads made Dallas, Texas into a city, highways made it a Sunbelt city, and DFW Airport made it an international city. Never much known for making things, it...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...nineteen months. Starting in 1812, Charles Tinney was listed several times in local District of Columbia newspapers as receiving letters at the city post office. On December 2, 1817, he married...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...