Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...delightful and illuminating shock she had of seeing a stretch of flat Illinois landscape through the window of an airplane and realizing how different it was from a map of...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...said by whites to be less than human and denied rights, were bought and sold into slavery. During the years of slavery African people would try to escape slavery by...
The Carolina Piedmont
Landscape and Settlement As pioneers, traders, and military men traversed the region in the early eighteenth century, they found the towns of Catawba, Saponi, and Saura Indians and trading paths...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Franklin, George Harrison, Warren Haynes and Gov't Mule, John Hiatt, the Indigo Girls, Train, Dave Edmunds, Dion and other artists. His musical portrait, Southscape, was released in August of 2005....
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...to the gestalt of this literature within the minds of its readers. To get a sense of this perceived landscape, I have mapped the observations detailed in this work and laid them...
The Shenandoah Valley
...in 1864 thoroughly understood the region's complex geography and its social and economic landscape; so much so, that they systematically conquered it. The breathtaking beauty of the Shenandoah Valley is...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...maintain their power; the rural landscape meant people lived and worked over a relatively large geographic area; no core group of workers had union experience; and companies were in the...
Writing Appalachia
...Region and Landscape (2003). As with maps, the popular conception of the region has also been subject to vicissitudes and controversy. Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, the southern mountains were...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...that some sought escape via "life in a big city . . . Someplace like San Francisco. Or New York. Or New Orleans."13Delery-Edwards, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson, 10. However,...
Sonic Zora in Florida
Songs Cover the Landscape Yet another program housed under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Federal Writers Project (FWP), invited Zora Neale Hurston in 1938 to join the editorial staff...