... women students is explored, including the role of the sexual revolution, access to birth control, and the fight over legalizing abortion. The major shift in state politics, away from one-party Democratic rule is discussed, and the rise of conservative politician Jesse Helms, who used UNC and the Daily...

...This chapter examines the use of slavery in partisan politics during the War of 1812. It charts the emergence of American slavery as a hotly contested issue in several debates between Federalists and Republicans between 1812 and 1815. It also considers how various participants in wartime debates...

... to highlight the relationship between local and national identity. By covering both the war and the beginnings of Reconstruction, it reveals patterns of thinking that have persisted or changed from the wartime Confederacy into the peacetime South, along with issues of nationalism, race, gender, politics...

...This chapter explores the racialization of politics during Reconstruction as whites in the South embarked on a process of rebuilding their lives and their communal identity, coming to terms with the end of slavery, and forging new relationships with African Americans. It examines the ways in which...

... and the swelling tide of left-wing politics ultimately strengthened the League's commitment to a kind of militancy that generally muted the class implications of the group's program through the first half of the decade. Even so, Urban Leaguers shed neither their concerns about social disorganization nor...

...Chapter 7 extends this conversation by examining the politics of racial recognition and reconciliation happening vis-à-vis public space, art, and cultural tourism planning within the revitalized urban core today. The Tennessee Riverfront and areas immediately surrounding Ross’s Landing are sites...

...This chapter introduces the argument of the book that despite Black Bostonians’ attempts at independent politics, their faith in party politics was ultimately misplaced. It introduces the book’s major themes and interventions, and summarizes its organization. Charles Street African Methodist...

... that food and politics play in the southern landscape. The chapter argues that the South remains culturally and politically distinct and that the perception of distinctiveness is a particularly important component of southern identity. In addition, the chapter examines the complicated relationship between...

... behind the façade of a “democratic Republic,” but by the whole field of foreign politics. Comorera Juan president of Socialist Union later Catalan PSUC secretary supplies councillor justice councillor Davies Joseph E U S ambassador to Moscow France Franco Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance signed on 2...

...This chapter focuses on Norman Manley, president of the Jamaica Welfare League, an organization of middle-class people founded in the 1930s to promote social and civic reforms in the island. Manley had eschewed any interest in electoral politics, preferring to concentrate on his very active...

... fundamental citizenship rights . . . once dreamed of by our great family.” Yet even as they returned, after a seven-year hiatus, to their long-standing project of publicly demanding full citizenship for Brazilians of color, black thinkers framed their politics of belonging in distinctly new terms. Alvorada...

... an ethnic niche within the department. Halberstam David New Amsterdam African Americans Slavery Black Codes Golway Terry Negro Plot 1741 Floyd David Gronowicz Anthony Irish Americans Wilentz Sean Identity politics Racism Tammany Hall Americanus Engine Company “Big Six” fire company Civil War...

... Lucy Identity politics Macfadden Bernarr Ramsay Charles Brown Panama Al Janette Joe Langford Sam Norfolk Kid Thorpe Jim Engine 55 Manhattan Hayes Patrick Hughes Langston Italian Americans Transfer process Brennen John Engine 27 Manhattan Kenlon John O’Toole John O’Toole Thomas Parker...

... the FDNY and Democratic politics by the early 1960s. Great Migration Julius Vincent “Vinnie ” Lowery Robert O Racism Slavery Vulcan Society African Americans Civil service jobs Freeman Joshua Puerto Ricans Waldinger Roger Civil rights movement Liberalism racial Racial liberalism Zieger Robert...

... by budget problems, escalating racial, political, and cultural conflicts; rising workloads; labor militancy; and white backlash. Affirmative action Birmingham Alabama fire department Carmichael Stokely Children’s Crusade Birmingham Ala Lowery Robert O Piven Frances Fox Racism White backlash Civil...

... Eisengrein Billy Johnson George McWilliams Dan Engine 332 Brooklyn Identity politics Ladder 175 Brooklyn Lawrence James Ratner Bruce Smith Timmy Uniformed Firefighters’ Association UFA Cassidy Stephen Cherry Vernon Coleman Tarel Henderson Ronnie Henry William Herman Edmund Umoja Kelly Bill...

...This chapter tracks the rise of voluntary poor dress and its links to a middle-class rejection of inherited class positions often rooted in political protest—against widespread poverty, the Vietnam war, gender inequality, and environmental destruction. Like rock-n-roll’s appropriation of black...

... Steven Peterson Evangeline Knopf Alfred A Waters Alice Freetown Fisher M F K Beard James Daily Worker The Freetown Zora Neale Hurston cookbook Scott Peacock nostalgia John T. Edge Abby Fisher autobiography politics Patricia Clark My introduction to Edna Lewis came by way of the cookbook...

...This chapter describes First Command of Capital (PCC) politics in prison. These politics are put in place by means of political positions that are not tied to those who occupy them, but that do carry with them serious responsibilities. At the center of this process are techniques aimed at directing...