"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
I. Introduction Max Vernon, New York, 2018. Photograph by Roberto Araujo. Courtesy of Max Vernon. In February 2017, playwright and composer Max Vernon debuted their first Off-Broadway musical The View...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...localized Covid pandemic response projects should complement conventional approaches to preparedness. Community Support Team Dhaka (CST Dhaka) and Community Support Team Cox's Bazar (CST Cox's Bazar) are two projects implemented...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...3 Shelbyville 14.6% 16,105 Tyson Foods (chicken processing) 4 Morristown 10.4% 24,965 Koch Foods (food processing) 5 Collegedale 7.7% 6,514 McKee Foods (makers of Little Debbie Snacks) 6 Springfield 6.9%...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...until my age and the changing times helped to deepen my understanding of what they might mean. In 1978, more than six years after I had first worked for the...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...to a nearby oil and gas field, the industry and state agencies expressed serious reservations. Jason P. Theriot's American Energy, Imperiled Coast chronicles the development of science and policy surrounding the...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...increased inequality, especially in cities already devastated by manufacturing decline.7Saskia Sassen, Cities in a World Economy (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1994), xiii. Historically a transportation hub, Atlanta was...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...step of posting a detailed policy statement, titled 'Negroes,' on the serving of blacks in his Felix Mexican Restaurants," writes Behnken. "Most eating establishments simply hung a 'whites only' sign....
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...7, 1998, http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/ATL.HTM (accessed July 16, 2007); David L. Sjoquist, "The Atlanta Paradox: Introduction," in The Atlanta Paradox: A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, ed. David L....
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...(New York: Scribner, 1971; Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2003), 78. Differential access was also maintained. The only Blacks permitted to pass through the station's white waiting rooms were...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...known map of the Mississippi River, by Father Jacques Marquette, but credited to Melchisédec Thévenot. The engraver was likely Jean Baptiste Liébaux. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at...