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EMI was making progress with MRI. They obtained a 0.1 T electro-magnet and tried imaging a human head. During one group meeting a member of the electronic support group entered the room who turned out to be Ian Young, formerly of E.R. Watts. He was not EMI’s only consultant on MRI. In Nottingham, Andrew obtained his Wolfson grant. They obtained a head image by the sensitive point method. Disquiet emerged within the group. Following Raymond’s taking the group’s latest and best slide for a conference meeting to which he’d been invited. Because of this action, Moore and Holland denied Raymond any further images and further collaboration ceased. From that point on there were 3 independent groups in the Physics Department, Mine, Moore’s and Andrew’s. Paul Bottomley, Andrew’s research student, claimed in his thesis, that it would be difficult to image at frequencies much above 4 MHz. In their book, NMR Imaging in Biomedicine by Mansfield and Morris, a figure of 10 MHz was suggested. He was able to recruit Terry Baines, an electronic engineer, who helped in the design and construction of equipment. The Germany company, Siemens engaged him for a period as a consultant and took on Andrew Maudsley to help design their first MRI scanner. The head of their MRI section was Dr Schittenhelm. As the 1980’s progressed, his research group made a collective decision on EPI. Various members concentrated on the theory and applications of EPI. Roger Ordidge made a movie of a live rabbit and presented a paper at an international conference held in Winston Salem, North Carolina. His talk was a show stopper, showing the world’s first MRI movie of a living animal. In 1991 Penny Gowland joined the group making significant improvements to their paediatric imaging. In the mid-eighties Michael Stehling, a German, joined the author's group. He was a medical doctor and a physicist. He worked hard to improve the quality of their images and also to extend the range of pathologies studied.

This chapter introduces the issue of increasing demographic change in the U.S. South and considers how such change is impacting race relations and racial formation in the region. Prevailing views on race relations suggest that intergroup hostility and competition would be the norm, especially between blacks and Latinos. In Winston-Salem North Carolina, however, and throughout the region, blacks and Latinos are increasingly building coalitions and social ties. To examine this unexpected outcome, Chapter 1 looks to the race and immigration literatures to theorize how race is made and lived in the Winston-Salem context. This chapter lays out the mixed qualitative methods methodological approach and makes the overarching argument that how Latino newcomers are incorporated, and the dynamic nature of incorporation, both play an important role in shaping the racialization process.

This chapter describes the setting and details the early stages of community-level change in Winston-Salem. Linking daily interpersonal interactions with large-scale political and economic shifts that shaped community relations through the 1990s, Chapter 2 provides a historical overview of race relations and economic conditions prior to massive demographic change. The chapter then zooms out to macro-level factors that shaped the area over the next two decades, providing a brief overview of the push-pull factors that brought Mexican migrants to North Carolina. Chapter 2 ends by elucidating a period of both heightened economic prosperity and demographic change, a time of growth, mobility, and opportunity for all residents.

Chapter 4 details the racialization of Mexicans in Winston-Salem after 2005. Latinos in the region experienced a sudden shift that altered their interpretation of their position within the racial hierarchy. Because Mexicans were aware of the discrimination faced by blacks in the region and saw that their interactions with blacks and whites were divergent, they came to interpret their discrimination experiences as akin to those of blacks. This led to a sense of Latino identity that was distinctly racialized. Chapter 4 emphasizes the relational nature of racial formation and details the Latino racialization and resulting identity formation among Latinos in the Winston-Salem area.

Chapter 5 considers intergroup relations between Mexicans and African Americans in Winston-Salem. Contrary to previous studies, this chapter shows that a sense of shared minority status coupled with an absence of resource competition facilitated a high level of positive intergroup relations and social support between these racial minorities and increased the social distance between both groups and whites. This chapter describes the on-the-ground interactions and institutional efforts that shaped intergroup relations and make the case that status is key in formulating relationships among blacks, whites, and Latinos, producing what I call minority linked fate.

Ray Charles gets credit for turning gospel into soul music in the early 1950s, but Winston-Salem’s “5” Royales beat him to the top of the R&B charts by a couple of years. The Royales were a key transitional act in soul’s evolution, with a particular gift for bawdiness. They also contributed a number of oft-covered standards, most notably “Dedicated to the One I Love.” Steve Cropper of the legendary Memphis soul combo Booker T & the MG’s has admitted that Royales guitarist Lowman Pauling was his biggest influence.

During the 1980s, North Carolina was a major outpost for that era’s college-radio alternative music. And Ground Zero was Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, which Mitch Easter and other major players attended. Easter and his friends Chris Stamey had been making recordings since childhood, developing studio smarts they applied to music. Working out of a garage studio in his parents’ home, Easter became one of the key producers of the decade, especially for his work with R.E.M.