The Colonialist's Gaze
...included visual details of the transportation networks of primary and secondary roads, local trails, and railroads, as well as the agricultural environs. The archival research (upon which this illustrated lecture...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...that Rowan County was an exceptional place, with "its own internal dynamics and unique history" (54), and a typical place, characterized by factors and patterns that made it fertile ground...
Birth Right
...1989, Alabama had one of the highest rates of rural hospital closings in the nation.2Health Care Information Resources Group for the American Hospital Association. (March 1994). Hospital Closures 1980-1993: A...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...Lewis recorded choral performances in Welsh miners' clubs, singing at pubs, and informal song swaps between Appalachian and Welsh singers. Lewis's time in Wales also facilitated in-person cultural exchange, represented...
New Shades o'Death Creek
Excerpt Set in West Virginia, this excerpt from Giardina's novel of time-space travel, Fallam's Secret (2003), evokes the physical and emotional landscapes of mountaintop removal in the southern Appalachians. On...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...that focuses on critical perspectives and published papers on Imoinda. I also encourage those interested to peruse volume seven of the online journal Synthesis titled "Perspectives of the Radical Other"...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...poll watchers—to challenge potential voters. Local officials will no longer be able to extend voting hours in cases of long lines, or allow provisional voting if someone arrives at the...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
Video Transcript 0:28 – This is the Cabretta Island relict marsh, which crops out along the sandy shoreline of Cabretta Beach. Near it are a tidal channel, salt marshes, tidal...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Street Canal Levee. Top right, Along 17th Street Canal. Bottom left, Along 17th Street Canal. Bottom right, Pratt Drive and Robert E. Lee Avenue at the breach in the 17th...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...alongside the old Carondelet Canal, and to New Orleans's ubiquitous neutral grounds, as median strips are called in these parts. The Spanish had excavated the canal (also known as the...