Hostile Heartland

Hostile Heartland
Author: Brent M.S. Campney
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2019-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252051335

We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated extraordinary events like lynchings and riots while engaged in a spectrum of brutal acts made all the more horrific by being routine. Also forgotten is the fact African Americans forcefully responded to these assertions of white supremacy through armed resistance, the creation of press outlets and civil rights organizations, and courageous individual activism. Drawing on cutting-edge methodology and a wealth of documentary evidence, Brent M. S. Campney analyzes the institutionalized white efforts to assert and maintain dominance over African Americans. Though rooted in the past, white violence evolved into a fundamentally modern phenomenon, driven by technologies such as newspapers, photographs, automobiles, and telephones. Other surprising insights challenge our assumptions about sundown towns, who was targeted by whites, law enforcement's role in facilitating and perpetrating violence, and the details of African American resistance.

This Is Not Dixie

This Is Not Dixie
Author: Brent M.S. Campney
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2015-08-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252097610

Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M. S. Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in post–Civil War Kansas. Campney's capacious definition of white-on-black violence encompasses not only sensational demonstrations of white power like lynchings and race riots, but acts of threatened violence and the varied forms of pervasive routine violence--property damage, rape, forcible ejection from towns--used to intimidate African Americans. As he shows, such methods were a cornerstone of efforts to impose and maintain white supremacy. Yet Campney's broad consideration of racist violence also lends new insights into the ways people resisted threats. African Americans spontaneously hid fugitives and defused lynch mobs while also using newspapers and civil rights groups to lay the groundwork for forms of institutionalized opposition that could fight racist violence through the courts and via public opinion. Ambitious and provocative, This Is Not Dixie rewrites fundamental narratives on mob action, race relations, African American resistance, and racism's grim past in the heartland.

Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland

Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland
Author: Linda Allegro
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2013-05-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252094921

This collection examines Latina/o immigrants and the movement of the Latin American labor force to the central states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa. Contributors look at outside factors affecting migration, including corporate agriculture, technology, globalization, and government. They also reveal how cultural affinities like religion, strong family ties, farming, and cowboy culture attract these newcomers to the Heartland. Throughout, essayists point to how hostile neoliberal policy reforms have made it difficult for Latin American immigrants to find social and economic stability. Filled with varied and eye-opening perspectives, Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland reveals how identities, economies, and geographies are changing as Latin Americans adjust to their new homes, jobs, and communities. Contributors: Linda Allegro, Tisa M. Anders, Scott Carter, Caitlin Didier, Miranda Cady Hallett, Edmund Hamann, Albert Iaroi, Errol D. Jones, Jane Juffer, László J. Kulcsár, Janelle Reeves, Jennifer F. Reynolds, Sandi Smith-Nonini, and Andrew Grant Wood.

Dethroning the King

Dethroning the King
Author: Julie MacIntosh
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2011-09-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118202821

How the King of Beers collapsed without a fight and what it means for America's place in the post-Recession world How did InBev, a Belgian company controlled by Brazilians, take over one of America's most beloved brands with scarcely a whimper of opposition? Chalk it up to perfect timing—and some unexpected help from powerful members of the Busch dynasty, the very family that had run the company for more than a century. In Dethroning the King, Julie MacIntosh, the award-winning financial journalist who led coverage of the takeover for the Financial Times, details how the drama that unfolded at Anheuser-Busch in 2008 went largely unreported as the world tumbled into a global economic crisis second only to the Great Depression. Today, as the dust settles, questions are being asked about how the "King of Beers" was so easily captured by a foreign corporation, and whether the company's fall mirrors America's dwindling financial and political dominance as a nation. Discusses how the takeover of Anheuser-Busch will be seen as a defining moment in U.S. business history Reveals the critical missteps taken by the Busch family and the Anheuser-Busch board Argues that Anheuser-Busch had a chance to save itself from InBev's clutches, but infighting and dysfunctionality behind the scenes forced it to capitulate From America's heartland to the European continent to Brazil, Dethroning the King is the ultimate corporate caper and a fascinating case study that's both wide reaching and profound.

Emancipation's Diaspora

Emancipation's Diaspora
Author: Leslie Ann Schwalm
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 080783291X

Helping readers understand the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom, this book features the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens.

Hostile Shadows

Hostile Shadows
Author: Jarrod Krug
Publisher: Bookbaby
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-03-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781543999471

It's 1944, and the quaint Midwest farm town of Russell, Kansas, hides a secret that could turn the tide for Hitler and the Third Reich in Europe. Nazi spies Andreas and Peter Othmer find it easy to blend in with the small community of 2nd- and 3rd-generation German-American Kansans. Hand-selected by Germany's military intelligence service, they're tasked with secretly documenting B-29 flight patterns from nearby Walker Air Force Base. But as the Allies advance eastward across Europe, the Nazi regime collapses--and with it the brothers' relationship, leading to a shocking truth concealed by the town's most powerful man with strong ties to the White House. Decades after the war, the long-buried secret begins to emerge. Two lifelong friends race to piece together the remaining clues, desperate to expose the dark truth before it's too late.

Heartland Heroes

Heartland Heroes
Author: Andrea Boeshaar
Publisher: Barbour Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-05
Genre: Iowa
ISBN: 9781602608047

Three independent women butt heads with heroic men who are determined to set them straight in Iowa's heartland.

Under the Empyrean Sky

Under the Empyrean Sky
Author: Chuck Wendig
Publisher: Skyscape
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Dystopias
ISBN: 9781477816943

Angry with the oppressive dictates of the Empyrean government, Heartlander and Captain of the Big Sky Scavengers Cael McAvoy discovers a secret illegal garden, and Cael, together with his crew, decides to make his own luck--a choice that'll bring down the wrath of the Empyrean elite and change life in the Heartland forever.

The Religion of Chiropractic

The Religion of Chiropractic
Author: Holly Folk
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2017-03-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1469632802

Chiropractic is by far the most common form of alternative medicine in the United States today, but its fascinating origins stretch back to the battles between science and religion in the nineteenth century. At the center of the story are chiropractic's colorful founders, D. D. Palmer and his son, B. J. Palmer, of Davenport, Iowa, where in 1897 they established the Palmer College of Chiropractic. Holly Folk shows how the Palmers' system depicted chiropractic as a conduit for both material and spiritualized versions of a "vital principle," reflecting popular contemporary therapies and nineteenth-century metaphysical beliefs, including the idea that the spine was home to occult forces. The creation of chiropractic, and other Progressive-era versions of alternative medicine, happened at a time when the relationship between science and religion took on an urgent, increasingly competitive tinge. Many remarkable people, including the Palmers, undertook highly personal reinterpretations of their physical and spiritual worlds. In this context, Folk reframes alternative medicine and spirituality as a type of populist intellectual culture in which ideologies about the body comprise a highly appealing form of cultural resistance.

Roll Red Roll

Roll Red Roll
Author: Nancy Schwartzman
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2022-07-12
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0306924382

**A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection** An incisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile and systemic undercurrents that enable sexual violence, and spotlighting ways to make change. In football-obsessed Steubenville, Ohio, on a summer night in 2012, an incapacitated sixteen-year-old girl was repeatedly assaulted by members of the “Big Red” high school football team. They took turns documenting the crime and sharing on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The victim, Jane Doe, learned the details via social media at a time when teens didn’t yet understand the lasting trail of their digital breadcrumbs. Crime blogger Alexandria Goddard, along with hacker collective Anonymous, exposed the photos, Tweets, and videos, making this the first rape case ever to go viral and catapulting Steubenville onto the national stage. Filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman spent four years embedded in the town, documenting the case and its reverberations. Ten years after the assault, Roll Red Roll is the culmination of that research, weaving in new interviews and personal reflections to take readers beyond Steubenville to examine rape culture in everything from sports to teen dynamics. Roll Red Roll explores the factors that normalize sexual assault in our communities. Through inter-views with sportswriter David Zirin, victim’s rights attorney Gloria Allred and more, Schwartzman untangles the societal norms in which we too often sacrifice our daughters to protect our sons. With the Steubenville case as a flashpoint that helped spark the #MeToo movement, a decade later, Roll Red Roll focuses on the perpetrators and asks, can our society truly change?