The Shenandoah Valley
...around 25 percent of the total population enslaved. There was significant sub-regional variation in the spread of slavery across the Valley; in Clarke County, for example, nearly half of the...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...for work. This was a fortunate turn of events for Francisco. Eva Villafañe, coordinator of the hiring hall, offered to place him on the sign-up sheet for day labor and...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...we have a protagonist who arrives in France on the day the armistice is signed and doesn't get to shoot anybody at all. Even though he is briefly involved in...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...which contains only one mixed-blood character, the significantly named Dilsey, avoids issues of race while promoting regeneration through capitalism. Known for its sentences of over eighty lines in search of...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...bounce, in particular, is showing signs of a full-blown revival.11Holly Hobbs and Alison Fensterstock, "New Orleans Hiphop and Bounce Storytelling, Preservation, and Place in Post-Katrina" (paper presented at the Music...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...in Chapter VI, their relationship may seem to others more like a "usership" than a "friendship" because of the men's codependencies.24Reed, "Chapter V," 49:09. McLemore gives Goodson money and other...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...6 (2009): 1044. Graffiti, Spanish signage, and For Sale sign, Buenaventura Lakes, Florida, 2010. Photographs by Simone Delerme. Non-Hispanic white, English-speaking Central Floridians' opposition to the Spanish language and Hispanics'...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...lost in time, its signs of modernity knocking incongruously against worn machines, buildings, and people. Walker Evans, in particular, achieved new levels of fame as the Museum of Modern Art...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...Bishop for providing me with a copy of this family history. Ellijay’s rebirth in different locations over a century of destruction and contraction points to its significance to the Cherokees...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...death. Climate change generates public health threats that include natural disasters and the creation of warm, virus-nurturing environments that promote chikungunya, dengue fever, ebola, and zika—diseases that call to mind the...