The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...had one child in every ten in extreme poverty. New Mexico with 11 percent was the only non-Southern state with the nation's highest rates of extreme child poverty. The Southern...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...navigational chart that, upon close examination, displays the Gulf of Mexico bordered by a sliver of land marked "Florida." To the lower left of the engraving, a bearded river god...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Floodplain Forest ecoregion is a vast alluvial bed of some 25 million acres along the Lower Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico, ranging...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...spread across the city's many neighborhoods. The rebranding of City Hall East, Krog Street, and the Atlanta Railroad as Ponce City Market, Krog Street Market, and the celebrated Atlanta Beltline underscores a shared aesthetic at the heart of...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...whose family is scattered throughout the city and its suburbs. Professor Campanella uses fleeting biographical details in his essay, adding to his geographical, statistical, and historical evidence the heavy authority...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...tribute to New Orleans. In doing so, they identify Ellington's attempts at representing place, history, and culture in the city, his multi-genre approach, and his identity as a New Orleans...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...and, for some, as Harrison details towards the end of his book, between orthodox and "queer" identities. "Through southern gospel," he argues, "evangelicals develop the capacity to think and act...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...at Washington's historically black Howard Theater, Teenarama offered an additional opportunity to perform and promote their music while they were in the city. While performers, record companies, and music fans...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...in the South and changing understandings of authenticity. Miller avoids the familiar approaches to the study of "southern music" in which scholars focus on a particular genre or kind of...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...lacks this authority. Legally and politically, it has neither the broad mandate of the nation nor the more narrow powers of state and city governments. Economically, every American region is...