North Carolina: A State of Shock
...by friends and colleagues around the country as they read the list of far-right legislation that has been coming out of Raleigh over the last six months. Is it as...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...found. Instead, Mitchell's fieldwork led him to find a rural, down-home country blues that typically features one or two musicians and an acoustic guitar. Unfortunately, there were no commercial recordings...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...as Oxford College of Emory University—and directly past Bethlehem Baptist Church, the county's oldest African American house of worship. For two centuries the waterway has been a significant site of...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...chapter documents the rise in upcountry newspaper articles about geographical boundaries, the growing public and academic interest in atlases and maps, and an increased frequency in use of the term...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...jurisdictions see "Section 5 Covered Jurisdictions," United States Department of Justice, accessed May 21, 2013, http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/covered.php. Congress enacted Section 5 because state and local officials habitually obstructed the voting rights...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...and cleaning for other inmates and the employees. Although African American women rarely received clemency, several white officials intervened on Cobb's behalf. Most notably, the coroner who had testified for...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...There is a complementary challenge for the site's users who ultimately ask themselves, "How is this site imagined?" In some ways, our project occupies middle ground between the "real spaces"...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...boundaries and renegotiate power. After Ward The day following GRASSROOTS! is a sunny Sunday, September 2, 2012. The annual Hurricane Katrina commemoration and second line has begun in the Lower...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...answer them also make up much of his life story. When Percy wrote in his diary of "our country," he was writing about both a physical location and a kind...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Find 'Forgotten' America," New York Times, April 22, 2008. The Bloody Sunday beatings, by Dallas County deputies and Alabama state troopers, provoked international outrage, led to the Selma to Montgomery...