Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...labor-intensive to capital-intensive operations and, spurred by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) subsidies, expensive machines and chemicals dominated remaining farms. Black farmers were often unable to obtain credit, information,...
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...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Miami's queer landscape radically change once more, with the 1959 Cuban Revolution and other Cold War era political and cultural shifts. Many bemoaned the fear of losing "Miami after Dark."6Capó,...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...as any. The fluidity of American culture — and I think ultimately region in the United States must be defined not politically or legally but in the most inclusive cultural...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...© United States Postal Service. By reframing the history of coastal Carolina, Mulcahy succeeds in rendering "both the Lowcountry and the islands less anomalous within the larger context of colonial...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...the United States (2012–2014). She directs the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. Many of her poems first appeared in various forms in Callaloo, a journal that for her serves...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...There have been a lot of changes in the cityscape since the New Orleans guide was first released. Upriver from the French Quarter the skyline has become mini-Manhattanized, anchored by...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange." In "Palomares Bajo," John Howard, professor of American Studies at King's College in London, calls our attention to...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...the United States, due process and equal protection of the laws, House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons," and citizens' right to vote without regard to "race, color,...