No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...them in Columbia and West Columbia were tied to an inhospitable history of state governance. Although Columbia is a Democratic stronghold, West Columbia is in one of the most solidly...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. While these stereotypical depictions of the region exist across a broad range of media, photography has a...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...below, Dotter speaks about some of these images. Earl Dotter Employment: Wal-Mart has become West Virginia's largest employer. That's a pretty surprising statistic in light of the impact the coal...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...MSU Photograph Collection, Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, 1965. © Michigan State University. The Michigan State University (MSU) Spartans of the mid-1960s provide a second case study. The...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
Essay Nancy Marshall, Moon over Darien River, Georgia, 2010. I have a story about a crab that started a movement. It is about a river that is stunning in its...
Besieged Terrain
...from a strip mine on its south-southeast border, Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Kentucky Heartwood. Strip mine on the south-southeast border of Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...nation's bloodiest conflict, ensued in the South as a "War Between the States"—language that sustained the claim that southern states were not rebelling against the nation but were defending their...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...of freedom."7Cayton, The American Midwest, 12. Both images bolstered the still influential Turner thesis which characterized the Midwest as a place of equality where social status was fluid, where individuals achieved...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...device to contrast the industrialized Northeast with what he wanted to view as a pastoral, even Edenic, South, Eliot was in truth a Missourian, that most existentially challenging of all...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...in the text."5Nicholas Stephanopoulos, "The Supreme Court Showcased its 'Textualist' Double Standard on Voting Rights," Washington Post, July 1, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/01/supreme-court-alito-voting-rights-act/. The third consideration on Alito's list is "the degree...