New Shades o'Death Creek
Excerpt Set in West Virginia, this excerpt from Giardina's novel of time-space travel, Fallam's Secret (2003), evokes the physical and emotional landscapes of mountaintop removal in the southern Appalachians. On...
Miner's sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia
John Vachon, Miner's sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF34-032709-D....
"Aint that Something?"
...removal coal mining, an extreme version of the already devastating stripmining, was growing more prevalent. The novel foreshadows the intense fights between coal supporters and environmentalists that occurred as more...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
..."listener" of complex national, regional, and local identifications has been a central, contested issue in radio scholarship. Susan Douglas describes the condition: [Radio's] technologically produced aurality allowed listeners to reformulate...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...also informed by colonial experiences in tropical medicine and disease control abroad, namely the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Panama Canal. In many ways, the southern states followed...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...and protection as well as moral and spiritual uplift and social reform. A distinctive corps of institutional and business leaders managed these initiatives. An Elite Leadership Atlanta's leadership was largely...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...wife to be put to death for spurning Alfred's sexual advances. After poisoning Alfred's wife, Georges beheads his master with an ax and then takes his own life upon discovering...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...legislature barred local governments from adopting stricter environmental regulations, reduced the budgets of regulatory agencies, and replaced members of the state's key environmental commissions, allowing the governor and the GOP...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...to quote Peniel Joseph, "the idea of a postracial American future remains an unrealizable but worthy goal rather than a political fait accompli."27Peniel E. Joseph, "Our National Postracial Hangover: With...