From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...professionals still work there. Its fans and participants aspire to transcend or dissolve regional expectations, theological boundaries, and denominational classifications. The music remains popular among white evangelicals and many African...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...realization of race and class continues to be Sutpen's epiphany in Absalom, Absalom! after he is turned away, pointedly classified, by the well-dressed doorkeeper of a Tidewater residence and sent...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Mexico to the west. Water is everywhere. St. Petersburg has always been two things: a resort town and a product of the segregated South. Known affectionately as the Sunshine City,...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...race and class, in a community where his own divergence from masculine norms led him to be classified as Other from a young age. Moonlight writer/director Barry Jenkins likewise grew...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...blood carried "outrageously high" levels of the class of toxic chemicals known as PCBs, manufactured by Monsanto, and that the soil in her yard contained PCB levels "above what the...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...
Good-Bye to All That?
...all the skills of a side-walk hustler plying his shell game to clueless marks; the super-rich and those just below them see their portfolios fatten while middle class, working class,...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, and across the Gulf of Mexico from Mississippi to New Orleans. Blacks regarded these communities as vital sites of leisure, relief from wage labor, business opportunities, and—even if too...