In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...Stevens stockholder meeting that at Stevens the "machinery [is] more important than people."25Conway, Rise Gonna Rise, 131, 136. Mildred Whitley of the West Boylston plant in Montgomery, Alabama, explained that...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...perhaps Sweet Air's most provocative contribution to vernacular music studies. Recorded music, and mass media more broadly, become the very agents of modernity generating "a massive deterritorialization of vernacular tradition"...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...in this kind of time. Before Pylon, "the class acts of post-everything modernism" came from "the most ancient bowels of decayed industrial capitalist, the dreary olde U.K." While many young...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...govern their actions come from. Over the next month, we4We being, for the rest of this post, Lindsey and Emma. sort of fell into a rhythm of collaborative ethnography. We...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...Southern Spaces operated with stand-alone, static pages using Dreamweaver. Media was stored in wmv and mov files and to implement Google Analytics, we added the Google snippet to the JavaScript...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...style was first heard in 1946 on the Opry and got its name and original sound from west-Kentuckian Bill Monroe, bluegrass resonated in central Appalachia, perhaps more so than anywhere...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...labor, and kinship directly shaped Native decisions to place their children in US homes. Among the Southeast Indians who sent their children away, most appear to have at least entertained ambitions...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...really needed great port cities."5Richard Campanella, Bienville's Dilemma: a Historical Geography of New Orleans (Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2008), 232. Even bananas, the most...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...on whether they lived east or west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Those still living in long settled counties in eastern Virginia, which had seen a steady flow of men...