Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...Anniston's history, demonstrating, as Spears intends, that "local spaces are sites at which global processes take place" (17). The connection between Anniston's civil rights activism and its environmental activism is...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...comfortable "back east" and in such august company. To Hardwig's mind, this image elegantly captures the "enormous gulf between the communities depicted in Murfree's dialect stories about the Tennessee mountains...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
Review Tammy Ingram explores both more and less than the history of the Dixie Highway, built between 1915 and 1926 as a six-thousand-mile loop from Chicago and other Lake Michigan...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...to be remembered long after the fighting stopped."The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance" delves into the recorded past of a particularly fierce engagement between the United States and the...
The Place of Appalachia
...Appalachian Journal 11 (Autumn–Winter 1983–1984): 23–31. In an era of protracted labor uprisings, particularly in the central Appalachian coalfields, and increased recognition of the relationship between regional poverty and a...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...agency," inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's theory of the minor, stemming from human, parahuman,1"Parahuman" indicates the zone of connection between human animal, other animals, and the environment. animal,...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...feeding runaways frequently required theft, which risked penalties ranging from a whipping to sale. Confrontations between slaves and runaways were often confrontations between neighbors and fugitive strangers. Indeed, plantation records,...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...access to better schools, and find jobs, and the volume of their migration increased during World War I as jobs opened in northern industries. As I discussed in Dispossession, three...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...and place. But we can do better. We are a primarily academic publication housed in a university setting and staffed by graduate students and faculty members. We recognize we are...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...reinforced many of the lessons provided during my extracurricular activities. Classes and conversations with Professors Sonia Sanchez, Bettye Collier Thomas, Greg Carr, Valethia Watkins, and Mario Beatty, among others, strengthened...