John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...purity and primitivism took on enhanced value . . ." (3). One thing that distinguishes Cohen from the Lomaxes is Cohen's independence from any institutional affiliation like the Library of...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
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
...struggle with the J. P. Stevens corporation. While the episode called attention to Sutton, it also showed many other mill women front and center. A bold, multi-faceted effort, the campaign...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...River. These ventures offered many of the district's black residents an opportunity to don their finest clothes, picnic, and dance. Farther south, Methodist bishop Robert E. Jones established the nation's...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...book covers most of the 1700s, beginning with the settlement of the Georgia colony and concluding with the aftermath of the American Revolution. The empire of the book's title is...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...interdisciplinary approach to gain new insights into this shifting social and political landscape. He uses the formation of the Catawba Nation from many smaller groups, known as coalescence, to understand...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...the story of a lifetime," it is not the story of any one lifetime but a composite of the experiences of many young black "gay" men in the urban South....
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...Tony, MC A.D.E., Clay D., The Gucci Crew, and veteran DJ and producer Pretty Tony. Female artists like Missy Mist, Debbie Deb, and Candy Fresh were among the artists who...