Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the two concepts. They suggest that in spite of diasporic indigenous persons' relationships to multiple places—a lost homeland, a current abode, a far-away site of work—and to multiple identities—clan, tribal,...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...which represent places in the US South—have become seared into the southern imaginary. Calling up associations of segregation and depression-era rural poverty, the photographs both tie the present-day South to...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...across country borders in the twenty-first century. While each international outbreak has presented a unique mixture of causes and consequences, they also have had much in common. That commonality places a...
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...imagined places in the US South, making connections and comparisons between southern regions or locales and places in the wider world, or using textual, archival, and ethnographic data to challenge...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...power in the workplace, but, depending on UMWA leaders' priorities, unionism at times paradoxically undermined miners' capacity to make that workplace healthy and safe. In the years after World War...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...Tremé’s contributions are to jazz, no less significant is its place in the Afro-Creole protest tradition. Homeré Adolphe Plessy, who is best remembered for losing the US Supreme Court case that...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Island People feels more invested in specificities of place and practice than theories or philosophies. "The abstraction was also a place," he writes (335), and "This book ponders not merely...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...left little wet spots of dark on the floor as he placed them above all the doors and windows throughout the house. Finally he placed three round ones at the...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...number of such case studies have been done, then to look for patterns." Bioregional history is, therefore, the story of different but successive cultures occupying the same space.2Dan Flores, "Place:...