The Shenandoah Valley
...not only evoked in its Indian name which means "Daughter of the Stars" but also in the wide ranging literature about its rivers, streams, mountains, caves, and springs. Thomas Jefferson,...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...was claiming a public and contentious arts practice for a black woman. Moreover, I remained blind to the reality of being a nameless, uncommissioned black woman doing opera in the UK,...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...Mississippians consider themselves southerners. And I don't consider myself to be any kind of alligator-eating Cajun type. As I said, that's kind of superficial. But I've always been a Roman...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
Introduction Virginia Ward's yearbook photo, Pebblebrook High School, 1970. Virginia Ward is not a small woman, but the fineness of her hands and the way her gray curls sweep around...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...of the lone white woman riding the bus in Montgomery in 1955, surrounded by empty seats, ignoring the boycott, and largely ignored, to our eyes today, by history itself. With...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...the Mexican government in 1964, the Border Industrialization Program (BIP) created the legal infrastructure for a bilateral state-promoted export-processing zone of factories known as maquiladoras (maquilas for short). US-based companies...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...no longer afford to live there. But Campanella's study is less concerned with illuminating this mutuality than in promoting Bourbon Street as the quintessential American success story. NOPD Police Sign...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...and updated articles related to the publication. Then we told that we were self-promoting and should stop; also some of our contributions were removed. As the managing editor at Southern...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...European-American descent, mixed with some (often unacknowledged) American Indian ancestry. “As early as the 1760s, their forebears started moving into the southern colonies, over the objections of the British loyalists....