Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...convincingly that when faced with the conundrum of seeking "mastery" through control of labor or "money" by selling enslaved people in their prime years, Tidewater slave-owners chose to sell men...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
..."reorganization plan" in the Dayton Public Schools, which sought to address the precipitous drop in Dayton's population during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Said drop has been attributed to both...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
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
...on the day-to-day lives of the Lovings" and "make a really slow, quiet film."2Joe Robberson, "Director Jeff Nichols talks 'Loving,' His relationship With the South & His Muse, Michael Shannon,"...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...a Sunday to vend vegetables and dance the Bamboula, squats in the park's southwestern corner, adjacent to the Municipal Auditorium. To jazz aficionados, it’s a spiritual site. Nowhere else in...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...deeply, including spending on welfare programs and benefits, and selling off government assets and functions to private corporations, while reducing or eliminating regulations on profit accumulation.2Lowe and Shaw; Naomi Klein,...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...to the Wal-Mart a Holiday Inn Express. We've all probably stayed in that kind of hotel, but back in the days when I was a shooter for the United Mine Workers...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...York numbered approximately eight-hundred-thousand residents. Atlanta, by comparision, had a population of just above nine-thousand residents, making it the ninety-ninth largest city in America behind Hoboken, New Jersey; Columbus, Georgia;...