"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the winter months, and invest their gains in labor-saving machinery, such as tractors. Between 1936 and 1941, the Bootheel's tenancy rate—which measured the number of those who did not own...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...men in the wake of the Civil Rights movement. Metzl argues that this was an intentional act occurring at the same time as pharmaceutical advertising which cast the Black man...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...But, at the same time, each of these images invites us to look at Appalachia—to see Appalachia and what it signifies in this particular image. These multiple, at times contradictory...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...politics with a local voter. Then Taylor heads underground: "For in the cave you forget that there is an outer world somewhere above you. The hours have no meaning: Time...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...evolutionary and ecological time scales. Biotic communities, as known during historical times, assembled only since the last major glaciation, or, the past 20,000 years. Like other southeastern vegetational assemblages, the...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...public health emergencies—as well as in non-pandemic times—were long overlooked or chronically under supported by virtue of the agency's own strategic planning, programmatic priority setting, and discretionary funding decisions. In...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...back.” And you go back and forth in front of it a couple more times, and there's nothing in it for the boat owner. But that was the best I...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Slave was named the best drama of the year by the Hollywood Foreign Press. Having been nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, expect the film...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...