And the Prize Goes to...
...understudied geographical location (Florida) and population (Puerto Ricans), noting both Delerme's and their own assertions that such places and peoples should have much broader representation and longer histories in southern...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...living with malaria. For instance . . . the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company in Taylor County, Florida, where we worked in 1936–1937 employed about 700 people to maintain a working force...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...and contingent meanings, Harrison takes a methodological approach "as multidimensional as the culture itself" (16). An associate professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University, he is a literary and...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
The Dispossession What happened in rural America during the quarter century after 1950 has been eclipsed by the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and growing...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...open a uranium enrichment plant; and further east, Citizens Against Toxic Exposure in Pensacola, Florida, who won relocation away from Mt. Dioxin, the toxic leavings from a timber processing yard...
Regions of Alabama
...at Auburn University and a leading authority on Alabama history and Baptist history in Alabama, was educated at Samford University, formerly Howard College (B.A.,1961) and Florida State University (M.S., 1962;...
Besieged Terrain
Review When most people consider beautiful landscapes that are worthy of saving in the southern Appalachian Mountains, they think of tall, cascading waterfalls, high, open ridges, and grasslands with dramatic...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...are in extreme poverty were in the South.2 The Southern Education Foundation's South includes fifteen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee,...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...South and North Carolina, and East and West Florida. Allewaert acutely observes that Bartram's illustrations and travel notes demonstrate the entanglement of human subjects "with the lowland as pleasurable loss...