Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...approximately 86 percent of Kansas families could be eligible for a voucher. In Utah, families with a child eligible to attend public schools can receive up to $8,000. Legislation introduced...
"Aint that Something?"
...include Silas House, Ann Pancake, Amy Greene, and David Joy, among many others. Appalachian authors of color including Nikky Finney, Crystal Wilkinson, Jacinda Townsend, and Frank X Walker dispel pervasive...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...of California Press, 1990), 67. Like other key thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, Sedgwick understood the "very specific crisis of definition" implicit in binary distinctions like gay/straight,...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...outside Yoknapatawpha) that appear in the novel. Clicking on any of the map's icons brings up additional information. Screenshot by Stephen Railton, 2014. Courtesy of Digital Yoknapatawpha Project. Part of...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...From historians like myself, Maria Elena Martinez, Lon Kurashige, William Deverell, and Robin D.G. Kelley, to social scientists like Ruthie Gilmore, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Leland Saito, Manuel Pastor, Laura Pulido and...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...other songs of abandonment in her repertoire. Alberta Bradford and Becky Elzy Alberta Bradford and Becky Elzy, Avery Island, Louisiana, ca. 1933. Photo courtesy of E. A. McIlhenny Enterprises, Inc....
Love and Death in Mississippi
...LGBTQ individuals, and despite numerous legal challenges and actions by states and cities banning official publicly funded travel to Mississippi, the law remains in effect.1The states banning publicly funded travel...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...animus that led a white supremacist to murder nine worshippers in Charleston's venerated Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 2015. The counter-narrative chronicled in Denmark Vesey's Garden insists...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...white working class—coded as male industrial workers. For months before and after the 2016 election, journalists reported on various Trump Countries, as they were dubbed—Appalachian communities supposedly serving as ground...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Anglo influence on the public culture of Louisiana. An Anglo economic, social, and political elite had emerged by the 1840s, and many descendants of Acadians in south Louisiana increasingly adopted...