Analysis Of Chelsea Stallings 'Removing The Danger In A Business Way'

In Chelsea Stallings’ “Removing the Danger in a Business Way,” she “analyzes a strain of the white supremacist vision in Denton, Texas,” focusing on Quakertown. She uses a variety of sources, but two main primary sources are from the Denton Record-Chronicle and Dallas Express newspapers. While Stallings is excellent at summarizing the sources’ ideas, at points in her argument she forgoes the more interesting details that illuminate the white supremacist vision she is trying to display to the reader. In many ways, the articles Stallings selected could provide insight into a community that otherwise does not have the loudest voice in terms of documentation and archival resources.
On April 4, 1921, the Denton Record-Chronicle printed an editorial, “Vote For the Good of the Order.” This editorial urged citizens to vote to approve the parks bond that
An annual picnic was held in a local park; “during the day dinner was served and at night the installation exercises were carried out by J.W. Reynolds, V.G.M.” This day’s section on Denton continued, listing certain members of the community that visited others out-of-town, or citizens that recently returned. The Dallas Express posted this section on Denton quite a bit, and Stallings uses examples from 1919 to support her explanation of the Quakertown community. In this case, Stallings used this article well. She read the information, then summarized it in a concise way to provide evidence for her claim. Surely, Stallings could find more examples of these gatherings, but one suits the paper fine. If anything, Stallings is skilled at keeping her work concise and well-cited. The level of detail paid to attributing sources and summarizing them accurately lends Stallings