Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...sort of grand plan imperial officials hatched across the Atlantic, the constraints imposed by Indian power mattered more. The malleability of information is especially clear in Dubcovsky's treatment of the...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...recorded. No one was interested in him, and he wasn't interested in coming out. No one was interested in coming to listen. He didn't want to go make records or...
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
...2010, in author's possession. Southerners for Economic Justice continued organizing in the Carolinas after the 1980 settlement. Its "job rights workshops" in unorganized plants in the Carolinas developed into the...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...its factory-town founding in 1872 through its acquisition of the moniker "Toxic Town USA" in 2002. The book reconstructs the history of two "chemical dramas" that played out in Anniston...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...current educational policies and practices at every level on children in extreme poverty. These children exist in significant numbers in school districts in every region and state in the country....
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...voice of the sea is clam, it is sensuous. It invites you to wade into its waters and lose yourself in the invisible beyond.8Kate Chopin, The Awakening (Chicago and New...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...informed Miami Bass lyrics and imagery with regard to women. The world of adult entertainment in the city and the emergent rap scene were highly intertwined, as shown in the...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...the busiest national airport) also drive economic growth.3A. Hansen, "Black and White and the Other: International Immigration and Change in Metropolitan Atlanta" inBeyond the Gateway: Immigrants in a Changing America,...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...applications,” press of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, July 6, 2023, https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/2023-07-06/iowas-students-first-education-savings-account-program-generates-more; Robin Opsahl, “More than 29,000 apply for Iowa private-school funds in first year,” Iowa Capital Dispatch, July 6, 2023,...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...private interest groups in an attempt to deny blacks physical access to the Pacific Beach Club, to condemn the property, and to convert the land into a public—i.e. white—beach. White...