Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...change. Menendez, like many Cuban-Americans of his generation, opposes lifting the US ban on travel to Cuba because he believes exchange would provide additional funding to the "Castro regime," doing...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...industrial development linked to infrastructure development and improved education from K–12 through university. It was an approach shared by moderate Republican governors like James Holshouser, Jr. and James Martin. Compared...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...West, 7, 132-133. Like the Midwest generally, Kansas has been identified with pastoral virtue and racial harmony. Unlike its sister states, however, Kansas was literally defined by race at its...
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...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...1. In the aftermath of this feast, journalist Don Marquis suggested that "the possum, and all the talk back and forth across the festive boards . . . has likely...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...part of what makes us human, likely found expression in other media. Among African people, diverse forms of artistic expression defined and gave meaning to their unique cultures. Rituals and...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...line from Psalms 139:12 is “the darkness and the light are both alike to you.” Alike, I argue, in that both arrive daily, and perpetually offer us a frontier to...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...by Oh-OK’s music, Christgau described it perfectly in his review of Furthermore What: The secret of this childlike music isn’t just its coy sexuality—lots of girls like to play that...