Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...concluded that "it is not sufficient to say that I should have to take food with me or that I should have lived on grapes and peanuts. If I am...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...As a society's self-portrait, displaying its aspirations and decorative schemes, such a collection is defined as much by what it excludes or treats as background as by what it includes....
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...of processed food that seems to grow its own trash, and Hushpuppy insists that you still have to "fix what you can." Still from Beasts of the Southern Wild, Twentieth...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...industry, and promoting professional sports and entertainment have created mixed economic and social outcomes. Some strategies that focus on geographic location have enhanced the city's comparative advantages in transportation and...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...configurations that were and are common in the singing convention world that dominated southern gospel in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. But professional southern gospel has always...
The Shenandoah Valley
...from destroying the entire Valley and subjugating its population, Sheridan's forces inflicted limited and targeted damage. Sheridan claimed that his cavalry units captured or destroyed so much civilian property that...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...against Stevens products and the stores that sold them. The United Presbyterian Church identified three Biblical concepts that supported workers' right to organize and passed a resolution that urged its...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...the public knowledge base that people access through Wikipedia. Here, though, has been the rub. We believe that our authors provide information and ideas that build new and significant knowledge,...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...in New Mexico, though a strong essay that presents a similar argument to that made in Lynching Beyond Dixie, seems out of place here. The editors do not claim that...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...elder Lee at age 85. As Johnny Lee, Silas's nephew and David's father, remarked that day, "A lot has changed since 1958 …[What has not changed are] this book (the...