"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...knowing that place inside and out. Although they are now based in Athens, Georgia, the crucial corner for the Truckers is North Alabama and the Tennessee Valley, a region brought...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...fueled a rigid racial order amid changing class alliances. For Jennison, the slide toward the sectional South of white rule, black oppression, and red removal was not inevitable but resulted from...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...a time of hope for an end to segregation and discrimination. It also coincided with rising national popularity of blues and country music, much of which originated in the rural...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...The Fire Ever Burning (2000, with Aaron Henry); Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement (2000); Captive Lives (2000); a special issue of the journal Southern...
The Carolina Piedmont
...peoples whose origins, social character, economic interests, and political concerns differed sharply from those of the older coastal societies." Almost all of the Piedmont lies west of a line drawn...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...but also the strange phenomenon that the Chinese all looked alike to him. "All their garments look as if they were made after the same pattern out of the same...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...On the plight of the black soldier, Baldwin writes that he was "almost always given the hardest, ugliest, most menial work to do."2Baldwin, "Letter from a Region." After the war,...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...relation to the conflicting demands of survival, personal autonomy, and family loyalty. According to recent scholarship on the long survival of the “dark fairytale” in the Ozarks, what particularly marks...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...24,771, all the while having an almost equal number of Black and white residents. The guidebook published by Mississippi's Federal Writers' Project in 1937 romanticized Columbus as "a comfortable old-tree...
Piedmont Blues
Figure 2.1: The Piedmont. Map courtesy of James W. Clay and Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989.) Although the Piedmont plateau stretches from New...