The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...(New York: State University of New York Press, 1999). Challenged by the economic competition of freed people who sought urban factory jobs and attempted to purchase rural farms, in addition...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
Neither Eden nor Wasteland Ninety miles south of Florida lies the island that PBS's Nature calls the "Accidental Eden."1"Cuba: Accidental Eden," Nature, PBS (September 26, 2010), http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/cuba-the-accidental-eden/introduction/5728/. According to the...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...the place where you live, and then to make choices to enhance that place. But bioregionalism was not merely a set of ideas in Port Townsend. It was manifested in...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...place the dentils, those little square things that are cast and placed in the mold. It all has to be in tune. When you run your arch, you gotta put...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...ideas than had even other southern states, evacuees to South Carolina negotiated post-disaster displacement in a place where affordable housing, public transportation, and employment options are among the least available...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Marcel Duchamp's art, and fan testimonials—to generate a narrative that squarely places vernacular American music in modernist discourses. Throughout Sweet Air, Comentale defines the experience of consuming recorded vernacular music...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Places are, in short, "open and porous," "mental territories" constructed through a multiplicity of relations with "other" places.3Massey, Space, Place, and Gender, 5; Andrew R. L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray,...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...in both form and content. Individual pictures declare "I'm Appalachian too," by calling attention to the frames that select these images. As William Schumann has noted in "Place and Place-Making...