Besieged Terrain
...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and consumption (record, radio, etc.) (7). Along with secondary literature, Comentale culls together various sources—including select song lyrics, trade magazine articles from Rural Radio, Woody Guthrie's novel Bound for Glory,...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...sided with the Confederacy. There were a disproportionate number of Creek leaders who had close ties to the Deep South: economic relationships, cultural influences, and, to some degree, plantation systems....
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...volume and intensity. The lyrics speak of the transience of life on earth and express a longing for a more joyous existence in the next world. The music has a...
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...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...2013, http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130903/SCENE04/309030069/. This retreat from metropolis to outpost acknowledges that southern gospel is no longer a national phenomenon.37 Douglas Harrison, "Slouching Toward Pigeon Forge." Averyfineline.com, September 24, 2012, accessed October...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...Introduction The art flows through me, but does not belong to me alone. It speaks for those who have no voices, whose voices have been ignored, whose voices have been...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...the other. The Mexican Revolution of 1910 played out transnationally, with leaders hiding in exile in Texas, and sedicioso raiders striking US settlements along the border. News reports of attacks...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University, Audio, 29:21, https://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/History/American-History/How-Long-Not-Long/90591. In remembering the Jim Crow he experienced, Adolph Reed has added nuance and insight to understanding...