Final Readings/Authors Flashcards
Out of the house of bondage
Glymph
-about women
Turn your radio on
Hall
-about mills
Murder, memory, and the flight of the Incubus
Gilmore
-about NC race riots
Race and class friction in NC neighborhoods
Herbin-Triant
-about rural segregation
The edible south
Ferris
-about role of food in southern history
Canning Tomatoes
Engelhardt
-about girls tomato clubs
At the dark end of the street
McGuire
-about Rosa Parks and Revy Taylor
Why I live at the PO
Welty
White man at the door
McInerney
-about old blues singers
Rhythm of the land
Daniel
-about music revolution in memphis
Oil on the farm
McFarlane
-about oil boom in Texas in 1930’s (huge industry but increased inequality, concentrated wealth, and hurt the environment)
Exploiting the North-South differential
Friedman
-about northern businesses moving south (low wages, no unions), moving allowed businesses to reassert their authority post-war
Mississippi
Ransby
-about SNCC and Mississippi freedom summer, Freedom schools, Freedom vote
Emmett Till case
Weller
-about Emmett till (14 year old boy murdered by two white men), how it propelled civil rights movement, men voted not guilty, first major lynching following brown v board
Pecking Order
Stuesse
-about communities transformed by immigration, immigrants (Especially latinos) get bad housing, discrimination