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...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...and their later transformation into apartment complexes, grocery stores, museums, and art galleries. West Columbia has become home to Columbia's growing workforce, University of South Carolina students, and young professionals...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the winter months, and invest their gains in labor-saving machinery, such as tractors. Between 1936 and 1941, the Bootheel's tenancy rate—which measured the number of those who did not own...
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...
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...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...Natasha Trethewey In these excerpts from an interview conducted in Atlanta, Georgia, on 30 August, 2008, Dan Albergotti talks with Natasha Trethewey about the new internet journal Waccamaw, his experiences growing...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...meaningful continuities. William Faulkner, for example, influenced iconic Caribbean writers Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant and also made a pronounced impact on South American writer Gabriel García Márquez.1Valérie Loichot, Orphan...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
...to the work of CDC and public health. Previously she led Nexus Contemporary Art Center (now Atlanta Contemporary Art Center) and served as assistant curator at the Atlanta Historical Society...
The Liminal Site
Red Mountain Garden Location of Smith's house, Birmingham, Alabama. Copyright GoogleMaps, 2013. My backyard garden is sited on the steep north slope of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama, about sixty...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...hollow square. Prof. Don Saliers leads at Cannon Chapel, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, February 2005. Image courtesy of Patrick Graham. About this Essay Most of the sound clips in this...