Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...Amberg. Grapevine, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Grapevine, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Chestnut tree stump on the I-26 right-of-way, Sprinkle Creek,...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...third film, We Shall Not Be Moved, about black farmers with whom I had worked when I was at the Rural Advancement Fund. It's available for streaming free on Folkstreams....
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...South with Related Documents (Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996), 19-20; and Steve Davis, "The South as 'The Nation's No. 1 Economic Problem': The NEC Report of 1938," Georgia Historical Quarterly 62...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Rosetta Records, 1987. Bottom, Portrait of Bessie Smith, February 3, 1936. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/item/2004663572. Extending...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...admirable policy of not having students work for free. Luckily, it didn't take long for then-managing-editor Sarah Toton to find the needed funding to add another position. I joined Southern...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...uses to organize his narrative. Edw. Crisp, Detail of A compleat description of the province of Carolina in 3 parts, the west part by Capt. Tho. Nairn, 1711. Library of...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Katrina and Intangible Culture Hurricane Katrina caused over 1.2 million people to flee greater New Orleans, where levees failed to protect both urban and outlying areas. I have elsewhere described...
The Border South
...free black Americans in the South. Over 55,000 blacks in Virginia were free in 1860, over 80,000 in Maryland, including over 25,000 in the city of Baltimore. Most free blacks...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...against allowing the presumed simplicity of white freedom versus black slavery to obscure the "murkiness of race and class relations in colonial Georgia" (39–40). Georgia from the latest authorities, 1810....