Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002) and Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009). Wahlstrom does...
Writing Appalachia
...of the northwest South Carolina Piedmont. In sharp contrast to all of the above, folklorists and cultural geographers such as Henry Glassie and Terry Jordan-Bychkov insist that culturally, Southern and...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015), 19-20. Their strategy of portraying Cobb as monstrous worked, as governor Joseph...
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...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...North Carolina at Greensboro in 2002. His first full-length collection of poems, The Boatloads, was published by BOA Editions in 2008 and was awarded the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize....
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...racial or economic lines)—form the heart of this policy. The authors, both professors at North Carolina State University, describe the evolution of this policy, noting how dramatic population shifts within...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...gospel is southern, and not all gospel of the US South is white.11Following Harry Eskew's lead in the Grove Music entry for Gospel Music, Stephen Shearon uses "northern urban" gospel...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, the establishment of Shell Island, in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, as a leisure destination for black professionals, sent local whites into a panic. Orange County, California officials conspired with...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...Then he was lucky. He was always lucky. He bought good cheap land, sold it for quick profit, bottle, and a fast car—headed north. He left their world, returned years...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...I say not everyone would know how to do that, and she says tempered glass doesn't break that easy. Eddie says, "The day after that fire in North Carolina, I...