An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...depictions of Cajuns that preceded in fiction and film? Cajun children, 1940 Cajun proprietor of barroom, 1938 GAUTREAUX: I don't really think about it. I know that's probably not what...
Work
...throwing thread. Clack-thump. Clack-thump. Hammering sirens sing fiber into endless reams of cloth. Clack-thump. Whir. Whir. Whir. Fibrous colors drape the architecture of my sleep. Clacking and whirring lift louder...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Carl Stump from Harriman, Tennessee, on mandolin; Monroe Queener, dobro; Carlos Henderson, banjo. After Henderson's death, L.C Edwards of LaFollette joined on banjo. All the Blue Valley Boys took turns...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
Introduction Popular American films and literature often depict tornadoes as distinctly midwestern phenomena: a girl in Kansas is whisked away by an afternoon cyclone, a pack of storm chasers follow...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...Changes focusing upon prisons and prisoners; and Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter (2002, with Winson Hudson). Curry is also the producer/researcher for the documentary film The Intolerable Burden...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...a film show and a pre-recorded soundtrack. Before Michael took the stage, his sister Lynda Stipe, who wrote the songs, played bass while Michael and Lynda’s friend Linda Hopper sang....
Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band
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Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...college graduate, was one of the MPWU organizers in Forest. Nearly all local workers and organizers involved in the MPWU had moved or passed away by the time we conducted...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...been transferred from nitrate-based film to modern safety film. The scanning project for online access, financed by the Frank E. Duckwall Foundation, continues to make hundreds of the images available...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...accessed March 8, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/we-need-somebody-spectacular-views-from-trump-country.html; John Saward, "Welcome to Trump County, USA," Vanity Fair, February 24, 2016, accessed March 8, 2017, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/donald-trump-supporters-west-virginia; Larissa MacFarquhar, "In the Heart of Trump Country,"...