Roadside Architecture
...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...aims to prevent misconceptions he fears are taking root about the uniform nature of the segregated South and forestall mistaken present-day lessons that ignore the role of class in the...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...mine-reform newspaper, The Miner's Voice, before photographing for the United Mine Workers of America's United Mine Workers (UMW) Journal. Dotter documented miners' health and safety conditions as well as the...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Clark recalled, "and dumped us. We didn't have nothing."41Clark, interview by H. L. Mitchell, quoted in H. L. Mitchell, "1939 Highway Sitdown," Rural Revolt in Missouri, SL 427, WHMC, St....
Besieged Terrain
...in eastern Kentucky, perhaps ninety-seven million tons of it beneath Robinson Forest. As a result, a moonscape created by surface mining—Reece describes it as a "ring of death"—surrounds the Forest...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...was westward. Steel discusses the causes and consequences of migration into the Chattahoochee Valley and much of western Georgia in the decades leading to the first publication of The Sacred...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...during times of climate disruption, when the United States might not be capable of compensating for any number of possible disasters. The Commons Communities Act proposes land reform and collective...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...by George Mitchell. © George Mitchell. "Born [in 1908] near Pittsview, Alabama" writes Mitchell, "Grant was given a harmonica one Christmas, and he says he learned how to play it...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
Review In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, clubs in Houston, Dallas, and many other centers of New Orleanian displacement hosted "New Orleans" nights, featuring rap music from the Crescent City....
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...the writer is meek, Joe is imperious, a veritable "Emperor Jones" toward black servants and market vendors. He learns to mimic Saxon's voice on the phone, recites Saxon's poems to...