"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...father asked her about school. "He was not a talker," she says with a smile, "but he was a good listener." Virginia told him and her siblings what her teacher...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...on Native elegy, he has offered suggestions about ways some of his own cosmopolitan readings have included nationalist understandings. For three decades he has passionately advocated on behalf of Native...
Writing Appalachia
...readings.2Outstanding specialized anthologies include W. K. McNeil, ed., Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture (1995); Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L Hudson, eds., Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...Water Graves recognizes the album's imbrication with capitalist profit—casting Beyoncé as an embodiment of the capitalistic deity Mami Wata—it doesn't investigate how the economic "interests" underwriting her album inflect and/or...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...you ran in front of him. I like the list here. I like the order. Everybody communicates with everybody very strongly."29Tomás Alcántara [pseud.], interview by author, interpreted by Eva Villafañe,...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...and Jerry Falwell (228). The push for racial equality was the abomination in the temple.7A. G. Miller, "The Construction of a Black Fundamentalist Worldview: The Role of Bible Schools," in...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Dr. John as his "college education," watching and listening to a master at work. In 1972, after the death of Duane Allman and prior to the death of Berry Oakley,...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...depravity—what Jason Huettner has called "poverty porn."15Jason Huettner, "Capitalist Realism or Poverty Porn?" Hyperallergic, July 7, 2011, https://hyperallergic.com/28555/capitalist-realism-or-poverty-porn. See also Larry Vonalt, "The Dignity of Shelby Lee Adams's 'Disturbing' Family...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...A masterful raconteur and an exceptional listener, gracious even toward admiring strangers who shoved their way into his privacy, he concealed a basic unhappiness behind a self-effacement that discouraged intimacy....
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...the white southern middle-class, Braden grew up to critique the language of white supremacy and use her sharp intelligence and pragmatic skills as a journalist at the Anniston Star, the...