Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...cuatro millones de personas en Guatemala y México, son uno de los grupos indígenas más grandes de las Américas. Aunque no se sabe el número exacto, se estima que cerca...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...trash."21Dorothy Miller, Pamphlet on Danville, Virginia, published by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of Atlanta, Georgia, Undated, Sarah Patton Boyle Papers, Box 12, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library,...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...and the Gulf of Mexico to the west. Water is everywhere. St. Petersburg has always been two things: a resort town and a product of the segregated South. Known affectionately...
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...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...means celebrates poverty, but it does emphasize art produced in conditions of poverty as an aesthetic rather than a political phenomenon. Cohen's and Agee's aesthetic interests flowed from different sources....
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...York numbered approximately eight-hundred-thousand residents. Atlanta, by comparision, had a population of just above nine-thousand residents, making it the ninety-ninth largest city in America behind Hoboken, New Jersey; Columbus, Georgia;...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...forty to fifty members of the Chesser family as audience. As he observes in his field notes, this is hardly a typical singing context, but these seminal recordings nonetheless illustrate...
Religion and the US South
...the foot soldiers for the movement’s nonviolent protests and boycotts. The protests drew from principles of nonviolence that King learned from Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, but equally significant sources were...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...