Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Merle Barber, c/o Mississippi Poultry Workers' Union, Rt. 2, Box 11, Forest, Miss.40"Delta Ministry Report," May 1972, Charles Horwitz Papers, Tougaloo College Civil Rights Collection, T/014, Mississippi Department of Archives...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...us. At least she no longer faces the "threat of murder," after her surgery. https://vimeo.com/389587403/1476146255 "They don't pick up the phone and call people anymore." 42:56–43:03 from The Joneses. Bunny...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
A New Era for "School Choice" and Vouchers The United States has never been closer to adopting a nationwide program in which the state and federal governments spend billions of...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...that I hired to track down historical film and video of Black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at failing to find much archival...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
Introduction What role does cruising play in marking specific areas of the urban landscape as "queer territory"?1For the purposes of this essay, I use the word "queer" primarily in its...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...fact of the poem, but not in a way where I'm calling him on the phone and cussing them out -- which I actually would like better. Maybe I'm going...
Looking Back to Move Forward
...drift instead toward the porch swings—white-painted wood suspended from thick rope—and sit with the girls. The boys wander off, phones raised, searching for a signal. My two-year-old granddaughter breaks free,...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...and transdisciplinary vocabularies for comparing creative works across the broader Caribbean. About the Author Aaron Witcher is a PhD Candidate in French and Francophone Studies at The Pennsylvania State University....
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...Đỗ Quang Châu, phoned and convinced him to move to Tennessee. Châu, more familiarly known as Father Peter, was the former head pastor of St. Martha’s Catholic Church, the first...