Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...to be seen. Appalachian activist and poet Wendell Berry published a new poetry collection titled This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems, documenting and exploring Berry's habitual Sunday strolls on...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...weeks earlier, his planned itinerary was a journalistic roundup, with stops scheduled in the places that had made headlines: Dayton, Tennessee (a 1920s news site Daniels ultimately skipped); Scottsboro, Alabama;...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Turner Field). Throughout the two weeks between the Opening and Closing Ceremonies on Sunday, August 4, the place and purpose of this patently international gathering was juxtaposed to the corporate...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...a Sunday to vend vegetables and dance the Bamboula, squats in the park's southwestern corner, adjacent to the Municipal Auditorium. To jazz aficionados, it’s a spiritual site. Nowhere else in...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...of other topics untouched and largely neglects the vast spaces of "Upper Louisiana" where colonial populations created thriving commercial and agricultural settlements in the Illinois Country and fostered complex—and often...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...including Alabama ex-governor Emmet O'Neal, they understood that such officials frequently talked down mob violence by doubling down on state-sanctioned execution. For these "law and order" officials, capital punishment offered...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...geography as wild refuge (Figures 19, 20). Images of Appalachia as a sacrifice zone reinforce these norms by presenting the opposite—such as Dobree Adams's active mining sites in Perry County,...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...4/4, are sung with a slow plain section leading to a brisker fuging section. Brittain noted he had never heard "Novakoski" sung with this change in tempo, and the class...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...history in the twentieth century1 See Bruce J. Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994); and,...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...schools in a desperate attempt to convince federal courts that separate could be equal. White officials tried in vain to give the appearance of equality to spaces and institutions conceived...