No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...median for all groups—Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics. Hispanics in West Columbia appear to have both higher numbers in poverty and higher household incomes than Hispanics or Blacks in Columbia or...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...compose the broader section of the nation known as the South, as this study of South Carolina’s coastal parishes illustrates. Each one—from the Virginia Tidewater and the Florida Keys to...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...relations in Georgia were dominated by white paranoia and stories of runaway slaves taking up arms with Native Americans, Spaniards and Britons in Florida. As cotton replaced rice as Georgia's...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...upon them" (68). In charting the resulting tensions between authorial intention and readerly want, Hardwig is particularly good on the reviews of local color fictions. "On the Fringes: Local Color's...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
Banner image for Driving Through Time, DocSouth, 2012. Review Well-worn words and phrases come to mind when driving the Blue Ridge Parkway—stunning, dramatic, timeless, a miracle of engineering and landscape...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
..."Vanishing" Texan and the retrenchment of Texas masculinity. In "You a Real Cowboy?: Texas Chic in the Late Seventies," he reviews the iconic films The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...to young seedlings by wild hogs and the destructive effects of naval stores production. A manageable fire in a regularly burned longleaf area, Blackwater River State Forest, Milton, Florida. Photograph...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...Glen David Andrews as they were playing the traditional spiritual 'I'll Fly Away.' The charges were Disturbing the Peace and Parading without a Permit" (56).2Ironically, Kerwin James was best known...