Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...1680–1920 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), 1–2, 10, 12. For a discussion of industrialism in the "New South," see C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South (Baton Rouge:...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...Esplanade Ridge (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1995), 18. Its two stories are covered with creeping ivy and a second floor balcony with colonial ironwork remains closed these days, sagging under...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...1973), 239–240, 299–300. Brown uses the West-Central African worldsense to discern the spiritual dimensions of mundane acts, such as planting, fishing, and hunting, as well as the African spiritual elements...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Against Sanderson Farms Far From Over," Philadelphia Tribune, September 18, 1981, 11; "Little Town of Laurel Hosts Historic March," New Journal and Guide (Norfolk, Virginia), June 11, 1980, 9; Colman...
Religion and the US South
...Indigenous peoples had their own religious systems that the coming of European Christianity disrupted, but the Native American presence left a spiritual legacy. More tangible influences of spirit-related health practices...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...were characteristic of the generations before them."16Beverly Patterson. The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches. University of Illinois Press, 1995, 166-167. As folklorist John Bealle has...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...scholarly design team for the AmericanSouth project that was led by Martin and on which I served as project manager. We were studying how to unite materials from disparate archives...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...tolerant world.2Contrast Coran Capshaw, the manager of Charlottesville's most famous musical group, the Dave Matthews Band, with Bertis Downs, R.E.M.'s lawyer and manager, who still runs the business end of...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...1990), 153–162; 171–176. This musical culture subsequently spread across trans-Appalachia, and then later throughout the Midwest, Southwest, and, after the Great Migration of white southerners in the post–World War II...