Public Health in the US and Global South
...http://www.emory.edu/home/university/global-health.html; Dave Huddleston, "Atlanta's HIV 'epidemic' compared to third world African countries," WSB-TV, May 6, 2016, http://www.wsbtv.com/news/2-investigates/atlantas-hiv-epidemic-compared-to-third-world-african-countries/263337845. This Southern Spaces series examines public health in rural and industrializing places around...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...(ICE has replaced INS under the Department of Homeland Security) have arrested hundreds of men gathered at popular gathering spots for day laborers. Some African Americans see recent Latino immigrants...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...and Robert A. W. Dunn. View larger version. In the Birmingham and Atlanta metropolitan regions, the number of singings has held steady even as their geography has shifted, revealing nuance...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...in Gamble Valley, adjacent to the city dump and two miles from the nearest white housing (111). Journalist Joan Wallace described Gamble Valley as "the most deliberately isolated black community...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...public intellectuals gather to provide the Appalachian movement with access to information and ideas, to get the facts right about the region and its people, and to maintain spaces for...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...interdisciplinary approach to gain new insights into this shifting social and political landscape. He uses the formation of the Catawba Nation from many smaller groups, known as coalescence, to understand...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...first noncommercial, religious resort for blacks under the auspices of the Gulfside-Chautauqua Association in Waveland, Mississippi. If ragtime, alcohol, gambling, and the occasional brawl enlivened outings elsewhere, the Gulfside Assembly...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...in eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia as they go about daily lives and leisure pursuits. He visits a local swimming pool, a baseball field, family gardens, a supermarket, and...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...17 (Top): Paint Lick, Garrard County, Kentucky, October 15, 2014. Photograph by Meg Wilson. http://lookingatappalachia.org/kentucky#/id/i9137354. Figure 18 (Bottom): Skate World, Vilas, Watauga County, North Carolina, March 19, 2015. Photograph by...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...racial disparity burdens only a small number of minority voters in a small, rural polling place, does the relatively "small" size of the harm argue against a finding of a...