Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
The Shenandoah Valley
...context of their social and economic system dominated by slavery. In the final choice in April 1861, most of the Valley counties gave themselves over fully to the Confederate cause,...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...from the wind. This same soldier will leave her in a year. Then she’ll leave to go to Florida, to find her family, working people, forever poor, ready to move,...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
This week (October 22–28, 2012) is the sixth annual Open Access Week, a global event which presents opportunities for the academic and research community to celebrate and learn more about...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act/. Rally to End Gerrymandering, Washington, DC, March 25, 2019. Photograph by Flickr user League of Women Voters. Copyright © 2019. The case, Merrill v. Milligan, will adversely shape voting...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Persistence in Indian New England (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997), 115, 121–24, 127. Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, ca. 1900. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...we do already know, but what we’re trying to figure out and better understand.”7“Jericho Brown: Small Truths and Other Surprises,” On Being with Krista Tippett, June 6, 2019, https://onbeing.org/programs/jericho-brown-small-truths-and-other-surprises. In...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Gazette-Mail (WV), April 12, 1994; "All About Business," Charleston Daily Mail (WV), April 26, 1994. Utility companies recognized the importance of obtaining quality coal as cheaply as possible. For example, American...