Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993) and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (Norton, 2000). Forthcoming books include A...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...published work in the field of environmental studies include: Mikko Saikku, Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Shirley Stewart Burns, Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia Peter West, Trying...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...(11). Unable to impose Jim Crow policies on Mexican Americans legally, a less formal "Juan Crow" pattern of prejudice emerged (33). In 1893 and 1905, Texas passed a series of...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...Mexico to the United States were intimately related. The impacts of NAFTA and related neo-liberal policies were felt throughout Mexico. Resulting pressures fed northward streams of migration. An estimated two...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...their segregation policies. Taking the lead in the fight against Howard Johnson's were black students from North Carolina Central, who in their efforts to implement change endured verbal assaults, threats...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Zion Church for ninety-nine years, its name officially changing to "Mount Zion Cemetery." As racist policies and practices pushed many Black residents out of Georgetown over the next half-century, the...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...committees, has been largely overlooked by historians. The class action suit, Strain v. Philpott, that defeated the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service's discriminatory policies has been relegated to a footnote. Welchel...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...region? How can policies be changed and incentives offered so that more land is available for housing and alternative economic development? What are the actual employment/income outcomes of regional economic...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...talk and some action regarding returning land. Various organizations have held public meetings to elicit policies directly from citizens. Even Congress is thinking along these lines. In 2016, Representative Harold...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Project" to be taken seriously, it will have to show how racism was deeply woven into civic and religious institutions and policies. This is the contribution of Mississippi Praying: Displaying...