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
...to copy the company's racially inflammatory anti-union letter is mostly faithful to Sutton's biography and official records. The sexually-charged argument between Norma and Reuben, however, was fabricated to demonstrate the...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...part of the exhibition. One cannot "play" this game without understanding slavery's terrifying choices more fully and realistically.5For a useful account of this exhibit's development, see Lauranett Lee's excellent post...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...open up. He simply said that if he allowed himself to dwell on what happened it would "consume" him, and he talked briefly and broadly about the utter painfulness of...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Milt Grant Show, Baltimore's Buddy Deane Show, the inspiration for John Waters's Hairspray film and the later Broadway musical and Hollywood film, was officially segregated and only allowed black teens to enter...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
..."embarrasses me highly." Eventually, she grew more trusting of these two filmmaking veterans, relaxed and told her story. But Braden never relinquished control of her narrative. As Anne Lewis put...
Birth Right
...were allowed to practice without legal interference) in fifteen states, and explicitly illegal in only eleven states, including Alabama.1For more information, visit: http://mana.org/about-midwives/state-by-state. Neeta Kirpalani and Emily Jackson, Still image from...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...the couple, immediately caused problems. Women were especially vulnerable. Mary Watkins had been living as Willis Stewart's wife near Staunton and evidently trusted her husband to register their marriage. When...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...in a Mark Bittman recipe. Photographer and UVA professor William Wylie has grown a visually and emotionally rich exhibit out of the limited collections of the museum, some key loans,...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...space for lively exchange. In her introduction to The Habit of Being, Sally Fitzgerald observes: "[O'Connor] enjoyed company and sought it, sending warm invitations to her old and new friends...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
Video and Essay Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs. A short film by Steve Bransford, 2010. Since early 2010, Steve Bransford has been working on a documentary video portrait...