Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
..."singing conventions," weekend meetings featuring a cappella harmony singing at which participants take turns leading an informally assembled group in singing selections from the book. Beginning with singings in Georgia,...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...previous experiences, we trusted we would find people willing to talk. We met an energetic young farmer named Noél Parrapito our first day there. For two days he took us...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...feminine. Collectives broke down hierarchies within private and public lives, as well. Members often rejected the distinction between intellectual labor and physical labor; in press collectives, for example, women both...
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...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...October 2, 2005. The date confirms that the morgue service was still operating thirty-four days after the storm. Other markings “Cans of DayGlo spray paint were handed out by FEMA...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...he's "saved" on the job and takes weekends off to spend time with his family. His simplistic vision of Louisiana is where, in Marty's words, "folks enjoy community" and "a...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...