Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...crossing the Ohio River to the North. The Ohio River was the border between the free states of the north and slavery states of the south. Even after crossing the...
California Creek, North Carolina
NCDOT boundary marker, California Creek, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drill rig, California Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist Jody Kuhne identifying springs in...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Act of 1854, it became the site of a struggle between northern and southern settlers over the extension of slavery. Although some northern white settlers opposed slavery on moral grounds,...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
Photographing Andalusia After receiving permission from the Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation to visit and photograph, in April, 2007 I went to Milledgeville from my home in South Carolina. Andalusia is located...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...They brought whimsy, wonder, passion, and pleasure back to the cutting edge of rock and roll after the years of punk anger and new wave cool. They restored the magic...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Black farmers, sharecroppers, and working-class people to continue the racist inequities of the antebellum plantation system. North Bolivar County Food Cooperative member holding snap beans on the NBCFC farm, North...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Hermanos (2010) and The Guestworker/Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte (2007). The Guestworker follows Don Cande, a participant in the federal H2A Guest Worker program, through a harvest season in North...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...loved ones as phones begin to work again have allowed everyone to breathe normally for the first time in a week. Outside the city, mandatory evacuations forced many to leave...