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...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...formerly been. Louisiana, like Cuba, also experienced the "same cycle of expansion and intensification of slavery after 1800 which had occurred in Saint-Domingue between 1750 and 1794," and many planters,...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...white, rustic life and experience has "tended to preserve it."38Pamela Fox, Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009), 7. For more...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...and New Mexico, 1800–1850 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 37. Wahlstrom's research makes clear that the US-Mexico War did not diminish economic and settlement patterns. Instead, ex-Confederate migration mapped...
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...