Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...racial mutability and/or degradation in whites.16David Arnold, Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 25–32. There is a lengthy historiography...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Troutman, Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012); Barry Mazor, Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the...
How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...will become a "world-class" city with references to enhancing the dynamics of distribution, promoting a revitalized downtown, building sports arenas, expanding the zoo, redeveloping the riverfront, and promoting the city's...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...his master's life . . . but today, today when he knows that, in eighteen hours, his wife will no longer be among the living, he flies to throw himself...
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
...told the House subcommittee, "People's concerns with union campaigns today are like what black Southerners experienced during the early civil rights days." In March 1977, Coretta Scott King, widow of...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...United States.6"Lifetime Risk of HIV Diagnosis," CDC, February 23, 2016, https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2016/croi-press-release-risk.html; "CDC Fact Sheet: Today's HIV/AIDS Epidemic," August 2016, https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/factsheets/todaysepidemic-508.pdf; Claire Galofaro, "Appalachia Bracing for HIV," U.S. News & World...
Cajun South Louisiana
...area that was part of a larger French West Indian plantation zone in the 1700s, and descendants of these early French landowners would become farmers and planters in the area,...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...inequality. This ideology allows white residents to celebrate progressiveness while failing to promote meaningful inclusion. Creekridge Park Demographics. Map by George Mayorga. From Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in...
Mardi Gras Indian, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010