Bøger udgivet af The University of North Carolina Press

Elaborating on the concept of sexual capital, Bernadine Hernandez uses little-known newspapers and periodicals, letters, testimonios, court cases, short stories, and photographs to reveal how sex, violence, and capital conspired to govern not only women's bodies but their role in the changing American Southwest.

In their darkest hours over the course of the twentieth century, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the US and beyond to build vast, now forgotten, networks of mutual aid. This book offers both an original account of Black mutual aid and a moving meditation on the possibilities of the present.

Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers. They recorded their experiences in diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and pension applications. In Love and Duty, Angela Esco Elder draws on these materials to explore white Confederate widows' stories.

In a country riven by regional differences, All Health Politics Is Local shatters the notion of a shared national health agenda. It shows that health has always been political and shaped not just by formal policy but also by grassroots community battles.

Traverses oft-noted but little understood events in the political and social establishment of the Carolina colony. Lindley Butler provides the first comprehensive history of the proprietary era in North Carolina since the nineteenth century, offering a substantial and accessible reappraisal of this key historical period.

In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston Mann - DJ, media law expert, and ethnographer - identifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood.

Reconstructs the history of the Hospital de San Hipolito in Mexico City from its origins in 1567 to its transformation in the eighteenth century, when it began to admit a growing number of patients transferred from the Inquisition and secular criminal courts.

As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women's cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries.

Making a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through an examination of the northernmost stretches of the US-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the border from 1867 to the end of World War II.

As life expectancy increases, people need accurate, scientifically grounded information so that they can take full responsibility for their own latter years. In The Art and Science of Aging Well, Mark E. Williams discusses the remarkable advances that medical science has made in the field of aging and the steps that people may take to enhance their lives as they age.

An open access journal published by Winston-Salem State University with the support of the National Association of Medical Minority Educators. Articles include 'All Seated at the Table: Interprofessional Educational Experiences at Family Houses' and 'Reducing Health Disparities through an Education Rich in Cultural Competence and Service'.

An open access journal published by Winston-Salem State University with support from the National Association of Medical Minority Educators. Articles in this volume include 'Are Demographic Factors Associated with Diabetes Risk Perception and Preventive Behavior?' and 'Improving Rehabilitation Counselors' Knowledge of Co-Occurring Disorders'.

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex.

Jennifer Jensen Wallach's nuanced history of black foodways across the twentieth century challenges traditional narratives of "soul food" as a singular style of historical African American cuisine. Wallach investigates the experiences and diverse convictions of several generations of African American activists, ranging from Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois to Elijah Muhammad.

In this fresh and fascinating chronicle of Christianity in the contemporary American south, historian and minister James Hudnut-Beumler draws on extensive interviews and his own personal journeys throughout the region over the past decade to present a comprehensive portrait of the south's long-dominant religion.

Takes readers along on a journey through the past and present of Appalachia's show caves, highlighting the characters who have owned and operated them, the ways the attractions have developed and changed over the years, and the odd intrigue that still leads people to buy their ticket and head underground.

More than 150 years after the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organisations repeat claims that anywhere up to 100,000 African Americans fought in the Confederate army. Kevin Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts and poorly understood primary-source material have helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth.

Novelist and non-fiction writer Philip Gerard invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides them on the 200-mile voyage from the confluence of the Deep and Haw Rivers at Mermaid Point all the way to the Cape of Fear on Bald Head Island. Accompanying the author by canoe and powerboat are a cadre of people passionate about the river.

Between 2009 and 2013, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the "historian's eye" during this tumultuous period. This book presents 100 images alongside Jacobson's recollections of their moments of creation and his understanding of how they link past, present, and future.