"Aint that Something?"
...and subjects. Some of Appalachian literature's most acclaimed and best-known authors include James Still, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Wendell Berry, Jim Wayne Miller, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith. Younger Appalachian authors...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...into the specific. Fortunately there are abundant resources for introductory encounters with the tradition, including many opportunities to attend a singing. Steel discusses The Sacred Harp’s editors and contents, its...
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...
Besieged Terrain
...the largely unappreciated and mostly forgotten parts of the southern mountains. The Embattled Wilderness is an effort to rescue what appears to be an insignificant, fourteen thousand acre woodland, the...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...he demands it. One thing I've noticed: he makes a lot of phone calls. Even when he could do a task alone with less effort, he takes time to involve...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...is part of such an effort. It seeks to clarify terms, narrate critical developments, define issues, and identify relevant sources of information.The focus of this research guide is the African...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
Bodies and Souls
...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...