The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...proceed apace, but also central Appalachia, where the struggle to envision and create post-coal—and potentially "post-capitalist"—futures is ongoing. In his final chapter, Stoll offers a "thought experiment" in the form...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...Lewis recorded choral performances in Welsh miners' clubs, singing at pubs, and informal song swaps between Appalachian and Welsh singers. Lewis's time in Wales also facilitated in-person cultural exchange, represented...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...racial geography in Austin before addressing the political and economic factors that drove investment. Engaging with architectural theory, a subsequent section examines how New Urbanism and historical preservation altered the...
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...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...ideals of the good modern man and woman, between the later nineteenth century and the middle decades of the twentieth—the anti-colonial moment in India’s colonial and postcolonial history. Parallel shifts...
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...