No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...were eligible for public housing in South Carolina. But eligibility and availability are two different things. And many people cannot afford housing officially designated as "affordable." In 2006 the fair...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...16, 1939, Folder "Tenant Farming, 1939-1944," Box 1, Official File 1650, Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, New York (hereafter FDR); Colonel B.M. Casteel to Governor...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...meaningful continuities. William Faulkner, for example, influenced iconic Caribbean writers Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant and also made a pronounced impact on South American writer Gabriel García Márquez.1Valérie Loichot, Orphan...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...He asks for help. If he's told no, he asks again or finds someone else. At 8:30 one Sunday morning many years ago, for example, my phone rang. "Were you...
Besieged Terrain
...Blue Ridge is the most easterly part of the range, with mountains that average three thousand feet in elevation, but many can exceed six thousand feet. Clingman's Dome in the...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...the political processes are equally open; that is, whether members of a protected class have the same opportunity as others to participate in the electoral process and to elect candidates...
Genres of Southern Literature
...of culture. The claim to order that is presented here highlights selected genres indelibly associated with the South: the plantation novel, the slave narrative, southwestern humor, southern pastoral and "counter-pastoral,"...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...nation through assimilation or absorption (85). Cover to Karl Jacoby's The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave who Became a Mexican Millionaire (New York: W.W. Norton, 2016). In 1894, William Ellis,...