States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...government passed. This paramount power of southern states would allow the South to remain a separate section of the nation with slavery. Much of the Lincoln-Douglas debates developed around Stephen...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...too many winters away from their last paint job. For the boys from those houses, only football, and maybe the army, provide a way out. The former football player in...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...The materials include interviews and photographs of quiltmakers along the Blue Ridge Parkway in 1978, and essays (see “Blue Ridge Quiltmaking in the Late Twentieth Century”) and photographs of the...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...for best film, and Quvenzhané Wallis, his spunky, firebreathing star, may be crowned best actress. In the movie she plays the part of one of Louisiana's Katrina-surviving, throwaway children, but...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...way: understanding Cuba as a potential interlocutor regarding sustainable agriculture. New voices call for dialogue between US and Cuban citizens engaged in a burgeoning organic farm and garden movement in...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...the country and the state's Asian and Latino populations more than doubled in the last decade. Occupational opportunities in construction, food processing, and textiles are attracting increasing numbers of immigrants.4R....
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...volume, then, represent not merely ways to think about the US South but also ways of thinking into and through and beyond it. The question at issue has evolved from...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...that were exclusively or almost entirely white men, enormous numbers of additional people participated in the War effort, including approximately 200,000 Black soldiers who served in the Federal army and...