Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...Harp singers to the Florida Folk Festival (FFF) stage. The singers had traveled from the Okefenokee region of southeast Georgia and northeast Florida to the town of White Springs. They...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...used it to help train Sarah Toton in my esoteric xhtml dreamweaver practices. Map of Eastern Virginia, ca. 1862, William G. Thomas III et al. "The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Chronicle, October 24, 2006. Worker Rights Board Hearing Organized by Jobs with Justice of East Tennessee, from Morristown: in the air and sun (2007). Jobs with Justice of East Tennessee...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...public and semi-public spaces as at least temporarily queer(ed) territory. This marking is how cruising functions not only as a social practice but also as a concept. Through documenting the...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...in LA," a classic re-examination of the least "natural" of all places, the Los Angeles River. On the East coast, meanwhile, landscape architect Ann Whiston Spirn has combined activism, teaching...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...the era of daily food for sale in the waterfront pavilion came to an end.13Harris, ed., "The Public Market Place." The public market anchors the east end of St. Augustine's...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...and scarred man of slight build had just arrived at the day labor hiring hall in Canton, Georgia, after a three-month journey from Guatemala. Terry Easton, Waiting for work. Buford Highway,...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...previously all-white schools, although many small, rural school districts in eastern North Carolina resisted until a court order required the admission of a token number of Black children in previously...